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CVE-2017-18273

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-22, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadTXTImage in coders/txt.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted image file that is mishandled in a GetImageIndexInList call.

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/910
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.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/910
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.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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