CVE-2017-14989

Publication date 2 October 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A use-after-free in RenderFreetype in MagickCore/annotate.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16 allows attackers to crash the application via a crafted font file, because the FT_Done_Glyph function (from FreeType 2) is called at an incorrect place in the ImageMagick code.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.2
	17.10 artful	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.2
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11

Notes

mdeslaur

0325-CVE-2017-14989-Fix-use-after-free-in-RenderFreeType.patch in wheezy 0254-CVE-2017-14989.patch in jessie 0106-CVE-2017-14989.patch in stretch

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 28bad01

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H