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CVE-2017-12691

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

The ReadOneLayer function in coders/xcf.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• ImageMagick: 7.0.6-6

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/656
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/656
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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