CVE-2017-11166

ImageMagick: memory leak vulnerability in ReadXWDImage function in coders/xwd.c

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.

La función ReadXWDImage en el archivo coders\xwd.c en ImageMagick versión 7.0.5-6, presenta una vulnerabilidad de pérdida de memoria que puede causar el agotamiento de la memoria por medio de un campo de longitud creada (número de entradas de mapa de color) en el encabezado de un archivo XWD.

ImageMagick is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System that can read and write multiple image formats. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, denial of service, double free, information leakage, null pointer, out of bounds read, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-07-10 CVE Reserved
2017-07-10 CVE Published
2024-09-16 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/471	2019-10-03

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11166	2020-03-31
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772643	2020-03-31

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Imagemagick Search vendor "Imagemagick"		Imagemagick Search vendor "Imagemagick" for product "Imagemagick"				7.0.5-6 Search vendor "Imagemagick" for product "Imagemagick" and version "7.0.5-6"		-		Affected