What is CVE-2017-12566?

CVE-2017-12566 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-05.

How severe is CVE-2017-12566?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-12566

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-2, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadMVGImage in coders/mvg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service, related to the function ReadSVGImage in svg.c.

EPSS: 0.012 (66.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12566?: CVE-2017-12566 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-05.
How severe is CVE-2017-12566?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.