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CVE-2017-17504

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• 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: yes
• Published: 2017-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

ImageMagick before 7.0.7-12 has a coders/png.c Magick_png_read_raw_profile heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted file, related to ReadOneMNGImage.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.9-24; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.7-12 — fixed in 6.9.9-24, 7.0.7-12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.9-24, 7.0.7-12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/872
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00000.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4074
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4204
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/872
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00000.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4074
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4204

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