What is CVE-2018-17967?

CVE-2018-17967 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2018-17967?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2018-17967

ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 has a memory leak vulnerability in ReadBGRImage in coders/bgr.c.

EPSS: 0.015 (70.8th 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 7.0.7-28
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
nvd@nist.gov (Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17967?: CVE-2018-17967 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2018-17967?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.