Memory leak in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-13066

 

Memory leak in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-13066

Published: May 15, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12713
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13066
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GraphicsMagick Group
Affected software:
GraphicsMagick

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The weakness exists in the function CloneImage in magick/image.c due to memory leak. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-13066

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources