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In ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 20, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadVIPSImage in coders/vips.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption in ResizeMagickMemory in MagickCore/memory.c) via a crafted file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 22, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Apr 20, 2025

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(44th percentile)

Weaknesses

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2017-14684

GHSA ID

GHSA-jf83-pjr3-8vr2

Source code

No known source code

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