Memory leak in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-11641

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12712

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11641

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the PersistCache function in magick/pixel_cache.c due to memory leak during writing of Magick Persistent Cache (MPC) files. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

GraphicsMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Ubuntu
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
graphicsmagick (Ubuntu package)
libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (Ubuntu package)
libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (Ubuntu package)
GraphicsMagick

Install update from vendor's website.

graphicsmagick (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.3
libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.3
libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.3
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.28-1.el6, 1.3.28-1.el7, 1.3.28-1.fc26, 1.3.28-1.fc27

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/db732abd9318

• Denial of service in GraphicsMagick
• Memory leak in graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
• Amazon Linux AMI update for GraphicsMagick
• Fedora 27 update for GraphicsMagick
• Fedora 26 update for GraphicsMagick
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for GraphicsMagick
• Fedora EPEL 6 update for GraphicsMagick
• Ubuntu update for graphicsmagick