Bug 1541866 (CVE-2018-6405) - CVE-2018-6405 ImageMagick: Memory leak in coders/dcm.c:ReadDCMImage can allow for denial of service
Summary: CVE-2018-6405 ImageMagick: Memory leak in coders/dcm.c:ReadDCMImage can allow...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-6405
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1541867
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-05 05:24 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:39:10 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-02-05 05:24:54 UTC 
In the ReadDCMImage function in coders/dcm.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.7-23, each redmap, greenmap, and bluemap variable can be overwritten by a new pointer. The previous pointer is lost, which leads to a memory leak. 

Upstream Issue:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/964
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-02-05 05:25:15 UTC 
Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1541867]
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