Name: CVE-2017-11531: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-11531, CWE-772, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00408

When ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 processes a crafted file in convert, it can lead to a Memory Leak in the WriteHISTOGRAMImage() function in coders/histogram.c.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade imagemagick	Feb 25, 2019	Jul 22, 2017
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Jul 16, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade libMagickWand-6_Q16-1Upgrade libMagick++-6_Q16-3Upgrade ImageMagick-develUpgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1-32bitUpgrade ImageMagickUpgrade libMagick++-develUpgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1Upgrade perl-PerlMagickUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-SUSEUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-upstream	Mar 10, 2018	Jul 22, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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