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CVE-2017-5507

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a pixel cache.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: through 6.9.7-3; 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1, 7.0.1-2, 7.0.1-3, 7.0.1-4, 7.0.1-5 (+31)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95752
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851382
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/6.9.7-4/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/7.0.4-4/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/66e283e0a9c141b19fe6c4c39f4a41c0d3188ba8
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-09
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/5

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