Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
CVE-2017-17884
Summary
In ImageMagick before 6.9.9-28 and 7.0.7-16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PNG image file.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
CWE-772 - Missing Release Of Resource After Effective Lifetime
'Missing release of resource after effective lifetime' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't sufficiently release a resource (e.g. memory, CPU, disk space, etc.) after it is used. If not addressed, attackers can launch a denial of service attack (by allocating a resource and not releasing it).
Advisory Timeline
- Published