CVE-2017-11166

ImageMagick: memory leak vulnerability in ReadXWDImage function in coders/xwd.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 4, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime