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CVE-2017-12427

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

The ProcessMSLScript function in coders/msl.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.9-5 and 7.x before 7.0.6-5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted file, related to the WriteMSLImage function.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: through 6.9.9-4; 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1, 7.0.1-2, 7.0.1-3, 7.0.1-4, 7.0.1-5 (+52)

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e793eb203e5e0f91f5037aed6585e81b1e27395b
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/636
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e793eb203e5e0f91f5037aed6585e81b1e27395b
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/636
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07

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