CVE-2017-6502: imagemagick

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-6502 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 06-03-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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).

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.