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CVE-2017-14989

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use-after-free in RenderFreetype in MagickCore/annotate.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16 allows attackers to crash the application via a crafted font file, because the FT_Done_Glyph function (from FreeType 2) is called at an incorrect place in the ImageMagick code.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-4

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/781
• 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/781
• 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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