Bug 1487263 – CVE-2017-13062 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the formatIPTC function

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Bug 1487263 - (CVE-2017-13062) CVE-2017-13062 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the formatIPTC function

Summary:	CVE-2017-13062 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the formatIPTC function

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-13062

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2017-08-31 09:57 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-08-31 09:58 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 09:57:50 EDT

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-6, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function formatIPTC in coders/meta.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (WriteMETAImage memory consumption) via a crafted file.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/669

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