CVE-2019-7175 — In ImageMagick before 7

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-25, some memory leaks exist in DecodeImage in coders/pcd.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-25, some memory leaks exist in DecodeImage in coders/pcd.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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

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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: 2019-03-07T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T20:38:33.498Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1e6a3ace073c9ec9c71e439c111d23…
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1450
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00034.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00006.html
• usn.ubuntu.com — https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/
• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712