Name: CVE-2017-12418: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-12418, CWE-772, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00181

ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has memory leaks in the parse8BIMW and format8BIM functions in coders/meta.c, related to the WriteImage function in MagickCore/constitute.c.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade imagemagick	Feb 25, 2019	Aug 3, 2017
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade media-gfx/imagemagick.	Nov 13, 2017	Aug 3, 2017
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Aug 3, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1-32bitUpgrade libMagickWand1Upgrade ImageMagick-config-6-upstreamUpgrade libMagick++-develUpgrade libMagickCore1Upgrade libMagickWand-6_Q16-1Upgrade ImageMagickUpgrade perl-PerlMagickUpgrade libMagickWand1-32bitUpgrade libMagick++-6_Q16-3Upgrade ImageMagick-config-6-SUSEUpgrade libMagickCore1-32bitUpgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1Upgrade ImageMagick-develUpgrade libMagick++1	Feb 21, 2018	Aug 3, 2017
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade imagemagick-6.q16Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extraUpgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2Upgrade libmagick++-6.q16-5v5Upgrade libmagickcore5Upgrade imagemagickUpgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3Upgrade libmagick++5Upgrade libmagickcore5-extraUpgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extraUpgrade libmagick++-6.q16-7	Jun 19, 2018	Aug 3, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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