What is CVE-2017-14343?

CVE-2017-14343 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-14343?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-14343

ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 has a memory leak vulnerability in ReadXCFImage in coders/xcf.c via a crafted xcf image file.

EPSS: 0.014 (69.5th 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 7.0.6-6
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14343?: CVE-2017-14343 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-14343?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.