Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-15217
Published: December 27, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9810
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-2017-15217
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information or cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an error in ReadSGIImage in coders/sgi.c. A remote attacker can provide a specially SGI image file, trigger memory leak and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to an error in ReadSGIImage in coders/sgi.c. A remote attacker can provide a specially SGI image file, trigger memory leak and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
ImageMagick
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2017-15217
Install update from vendor's website.