Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package imagemagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-IMAGEMAGICK-628448
  • published17 Mar 2017
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2014-9853  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Memory leak in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted rle file.