CVE-2017-18254

MEDIUM

ImageMagick 7.0.7 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in WriteGIFImage

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteGIFImage in coders/gif.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/808

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0178

EPSS Percentile 75.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-772

Status published

Products (5)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

imagemagick/imagemagick 7.0.7

Published Mar 27, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026