CVE-2017-14138 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has a memory leak vulnerability in ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c because memory is not freed in certain error cases, as demonstrated by VP8 errors.

Published: 2017-09-04

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.6-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5649	ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has a memory leak vulnerability in ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c because memory is not freed in certain error cases, as demonstrated by VP8 errors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00224.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/639
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14138
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14138

History

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Subscriptions

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-04T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:20:39.896Z

Reserved: 2017-09-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14138

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-04T23:29:00.313

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-14138

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14138 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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