Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-IMAGEMAGICK-400644
  • published19 May 2017
  • disclosed19 May 2017

Introduced: 19 May 2017

CVE-2017-9098  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 imagemagick to version 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

CVSS Scores

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