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CVE-2017-17681

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadPSDChannelZip in coders/psd.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted psd image file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-12-q16

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102206
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/869
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102206
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/869
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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