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CVE-2017-17914

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% 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-834

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16, a vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (ReadOneMNGImage large loop) via a crafted mng image file.

Affected products

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

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/908
• 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/
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/908
• 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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