CVE-2017-5507 — Memory leak in coders/mpc

Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a pixel cache.

01What is this vulnerability?

Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a pixel cache.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-03-24T15:59:01.027
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• www.debian.org — http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6
• www.openwall.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/5
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95752
• bugs.debian.org — https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851382
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/6.9.7-4/ChangeLog
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/7.0.4-4/ChangeLog
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/66e283e0a9c141b19fe6c4c39f4a41…
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-09
• www.debian.org — http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799