Name: CVE-2018-17966: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-17966, CWE-772, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.01714

ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 has a memory leak vulnerability in WritePDBImage in coders/pdb.c.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 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
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade imagemagick6	Oct 1, 2024	Oct 3, 2018
Debian	—	Upgrade imagemagick	Jul 30, 2024	Oct 3, 2018
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Oct 3, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade ImageMagick-docUpgrade perl-GraphicsMagickUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-SUSEUpgrade perl-PerlMagickUpgrade libGraphicsMagick2Upgrade libMagick++-6_Q16-3Upgrade ImageMagick-extraUpgrade libMagick++-7_Q16HDRI4Upgrade libmagickcore-7_q16hdri6-32bitUpgrade imagemagick-config-7-upstreamUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-upstreamUpgrade ImageMagickUpgrade libMagickWand1-32bitUpgrade libmagickwand-7_q16hdri6-32bitUpgrade libMagickCore-7_Q16HDRI6Upgrade GraphicsMagickUpgrade libMagickCore1-32bitUpgrade libMagickWand1Upgrade imagemagick-devel-32bitUpgrade libmagick-devel-32bitUpgrade libmagick-7_q16hdri4-32bitUpgrade ImageMagick-develUpgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1Upgrade ImageMagick-config-7-SUSEUpgrade libMagickWand-6_Q16-1Upgrade libMagick++-develUpgrade libMagickCore1Upgrade libMagickWand-7_Q16HDRI6Upgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1-32bitUpgrade libMagick++1	Oct 17, 2018	Oct 3, 2018
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libmagick++-6.q16-7Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extraUpgrade libmagick++-6.q16-8Upgrade libmagickwand5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagick++5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagickwand-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagickcore-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagick++-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade imagemagickUpgrade libmagick++-6.q16-5v5Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extraUpgrade perlmagick (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-6Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extraUpgrade imagemagick (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade imagemagick-6.q16Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2	Jun 25, 2019	Oct 3, 2018

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CVSS Details

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