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CVE-2017-13769

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The WriteTHUMBNAILImage function in coders/thumbnail.c in ImageMagick through 7.0.6-10 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) by sending a crafted JPEG file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.9-11; from 7.0.0-0 through 7.0.6-10 — fixed in 6.9.9-11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.9-11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/705
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4032
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/705
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4032
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040

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