CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-14528

Use After Free

Published: Sep 18, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
NEGLIGIBLE

The TIFFSetProfiles function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6 has incorrect expectations about whether LibTIFF TIFFGetField return values imply that data validation has occurred, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free after an invalid call to TIFFSetField, and application crash) via a crafted file.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Imagemagick Imagemagick 7.0.6 (including) 7.0.6 (including)
Imagemagick Ubuntu artful *
Imagemagick Ubuntu bionic *
Imagemagick Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Imagemagick Ubuntu trusty *
Imagemagick Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Imagemagick Ubuntu upstream *
Imagemagick Ubuntu xenial *
Imagemagick Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References