Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu9


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-IMAGEMAGICK-5492925
  • published 23 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 23 Sep 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 imagemagick to version 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu9 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:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 has a memory leak in coders/dot.c, as demonstrated by PingImage in MagickCore/constitute.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.3 medium