Use After Free Affecting ImageMagick/ImageMagick package, versions [,7.0.7-4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-3007511
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14989  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ImageMagick/ImageMagick.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use-after-free in RenderFreetype in MagickCore/annotate.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16 allows attackers to crash the application via a crafted font file, because the FT_Done_Glyph function (from FreeType 2) is called at an incorrect place in the ImageMagick code.

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CVSS Base Scores

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