CVE-2017-17882 (GCVE-0-2017-17882)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-24 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:06
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Summary
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadXPMImage in coders/xpm.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XPM image file.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/880 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2017-12-23 00:00
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