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CVE-2017-17881

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% 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-772

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadMATImage in coders/mat.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted MAT image file.

Affected products

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

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/878
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/878
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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