Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.24% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-IMAGEMAGICK-17965706
  • published14 Jul 2026
  • disclosed5 Aug 2017

Introduced: 5 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest imagemagick to version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-2, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadMVGImage in coders/mvg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service, related to the function ReadSVGImage in svg.c.