Name: CVE-2017-12433: 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-2017-12433, CWE-772, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.01284

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadPESImage in coders/pes.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service, related to ResizeMagickMemory in memory.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	Aug 4, 2017
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Aug 4, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1Upgrade ImageMagick-develUpgrade libMagick++-develUpgrade libMagickWand-6_Q16-1Upgrade libMagick++-6_Q16-3Upgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1-32bitUpgrade perl-PerlMagickUpgrade ImageMagickUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-upstreamUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-SUSE	Nov 8, 2017	Aug 4, 2017
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extraUpgrade libmagickcore5-extraUpgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2Upgrade libmagickcore5Upgrade libmagick++-6.q16-7Upgrade libmagick++5Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3Upgrade imagemagick-6.q16Upgrade imagemagickUpgrade libmagick++-6.q16-5v5Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra	Jun 19, 2018	Aug 4, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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