CVE-2017-14138

Publication date 4 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has a memory leak vulnerability in ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c because memory is not freed in certain error cases, as demonstrated by VP8 errors.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

webp is not built

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: def00c7 Upstream: 1c487cd

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14138