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CVE-2017-17879

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-21, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadOneMNGImage in coders/png.c, related to length calculation and caused by an off-by-one error.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-16

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102305
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/906
• 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
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102305
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/906
• 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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