Medium
Security advisory
In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a missing NULL assignment was found in coders/png.c, leading to an invalid free in the function RelinquishMagickMemory in MagickCore/memory.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12671
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a missing NULL assignment was found in coders/png.c, leading to an invalid free in the function RelinquishMagickMemory in MagickCore/memory.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.
osv:CVE-2017-12671
Complete source record
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