High severity · published Mar 24, 2017
CVE-2017-5507
Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a…
7.5
CVSS
6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a pixel cache.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)6.0% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
7.0.1-0; 7.0.1-1; 7.0.1-2; 7.0.1-3; 7.0.1-4; 7.0.1-5; +32 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5507
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5507
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/5
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95752
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851382
Release Notes
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/6.9.7-4/ChangeLog
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