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CVE-2017-11523

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

The ReadTXTImage function in coders/txt.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted file, because the end-of-file condition is not considered.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: through 6.9.9-0; 7.0.0-0, 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1, 7.0.1-2, 7.0.1-3, 7.0.1-4 (+47)

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/869210
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019
• https://bugs.debian.org/869210
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019

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