CVE-2017-14060

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-10, a NULL Pointer Dereference issue is present in the ReadCUTImage function in coders/cut.c that could allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (in the QueueAuthenticPixelCacheNexus function within the MagickCore/cache.c file) by submitting a malformed image file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
ImageMagick: 7.0.6-10

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/710
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/710
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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