CVE-2023-39978 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity

75%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

60%

ImageMagick before 6.9.12-91 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) in Magick::Draw.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Demo Examples

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CWE-401

The following C function leaks a block of allocated memory if the call to read() does not return the expected number of bytes:


               
}

                     
return buf;
return NULL;

                           
return NULL;

Overview

First reported 1 year ago

2023-08-08 06:15:00

Last updated 1 year ago

2023-11-30 19:26:00

Affected Software

ImageMagick

References

https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406/files

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/c90e79b3b22fec309cab55af2ee606f71b027b12

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/compare/6.9.12-90...6.9.12-91

https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406/files

Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/c90e79b3b22fec309cab55af2ee606f71b027b12

Patch

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/compare/6.9.12-90...6.9.12-91

Not Applicable

FEDORA-2023-edbdccae2a

FEDORA-2023-edbdccae2a

FEDORA-2023-edbdccae2a

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