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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-13062

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.

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CVE-2017-13062

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-13062
Complete source record
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