What is CVE-2019-16712?

CVE-2019-16712 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-09-23.

How severe is CVE-2019-16712?

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

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2019-16712

ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 has a memory leak in Huffman2DEncodeImage in coders/ps3.c, as demonstrated by WritePS3Image.

EPSS: 0.026 (83.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.8-43
Opensuse Leap — versions 15.0, 15.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-16712?: CVE-2019-16712 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-09-23.
How severe is CVE-2019-16712?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.