Resource Management Errors Affecting ImageMagick/ImageMagick package, versions [,6.9.8-1)[7.0.0, 7.0.5-6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.08% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-3007611
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ImageMagick/ImageMagick to version 6.9.8-1, 7.0.5-6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.

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