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CVE-2017-11310 is a memory leak issue in ImageMagick’s PNG handling. A specially formed PNG file can cause affected ImageMagick processing to leak memory. The main business concern is resource exhaustion in services that process user-supplied images, such as upload, conversion, thumbnailing, or content moderation pipelines. Exposure is most likely where ImageMagick processes untrusted PNG files. Internet-facing upload paths, automated image conversion jobs, and backend media pipelines deserve review. Evidence only names the ImageMagick beta build in the CVE text. Treat this as a targeted remediation item for systems that process outside images. It is not KEV-listed and has no supplied severity score, but media-processing services can suffer availability impact when memory handling fails. Mitigation focus: Inventory ImageMagick versions used by applications, containers, and build images.; Check ImageMagick vendor guidance and release notes for the fixed version containing the referenced commit.; Upgrade affected ImageMagick packages where untrusted PNG processing exists..
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- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/8ca35831e91c3db8c6d281d09b605001003bec08CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/517CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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