CVE-2017-6502 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted webp file could lead to a file-descriptor leak in libmagickcore (thus, a DoS).

Published: 2017-03-06

Score: 5.5 Medium

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:6.9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-15558	An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted webp file could lead to a file-descriptor leak in libmagickcore (thus, a DoS).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0008.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96763
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/126c7c98ea788241922c30df4a5633ea692cf8df
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6502
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6502

History

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Subscriptions

Imagemagick Imagemagick

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-06T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:19.044Z

Reserved: 2017-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6502

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-06T02:59:00.683

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

Link: CVE-2017-6502

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-6502 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-119

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