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CVE-2017-8765 (GCVE-0-2017-8765)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-04 03:55 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:48
VLAI
Summary
The function named ReadICONImage in coders\icon.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-5 has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted ICON file.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98688 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/466 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2017-05-03 00:00
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