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CVE-2017-5506

Double Free

Published: Mar 24, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4.4 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5506
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

Double free vulnerability in magick/profile.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted file.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Imagemagick Imagemagick * *
Imagemagick Ubuntu devel *
Imagemagick Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Imagemagick Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Imagemagick Ubuntu precise *
Imagemagick Ubuntu trusty *
Imagemagick Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Imagemagick Ubuntu upstream *
Imagemagick Ubuntu xenial *
Imagemagick Ubuntu yakkety *

Potential Mitigations

References

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