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CVE-2017-17682
- 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-400
Description
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a large loop vulnerability was found in the function ExtractPostscript in coders/wpg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted wpg image file that triggers a ReadWPGImage call.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
- Debian Linux: 7.0
- ImageMagick: 7.0.7-12-q16
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102202
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/870
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102202
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/870
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
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