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CVE-2017-16546

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ReadWPGImage function in coders/wpg.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-9 does not properly validate the colormap index in a WPG palette, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use of uninitialized data or invalid memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed WPG file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-9

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2130bf6f89ded32ef0c88a11694f107c52566c53
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e04cf3e9524f50ca336253513d977224e083b816
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/851
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4074
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2130bf6f89ded32ef0c88a11694f107c52566c53
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e04cf3e9524f50ca336253513d977224e083b816
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/851
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4074

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