CVE-2021-3574

A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick-7.0.11-5, where executing a crafted file with the convert command, ASAN detects memory leaks.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Imagemagick	Imagemagick	7.0.11-5 (including)	7.0.11-5 (including)
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	devel	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	esm-apps/jammy	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	esm-apps/noble	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	jammy	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	kinetic	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	lunar	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	mantic	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	noble	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	oracular	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	plucky	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	trusty	*
Imagemagick	Ubuntu	xenial	*

Potential Mitigations

Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3574
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Weakness

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References