CVE-2017-11450

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

coders/jpeg.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via JPEG data that is too short.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
ImageMagick: before 6.9.9-0; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.6-1 — fixed in 6.9.9-0, 7.0.6-1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.9-0, 7.0.6-1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867894
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/948356eec65aea91995d4b7cc487d197d2c5f602
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/556
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11450
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867894
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/948356eec65aea91995d4b7cc487d197d2c5f602
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/556
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11450

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