CVE-2017-5508

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% 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-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the PushQuantumPixel function in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-3 and 7.x before 7.0.4-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

ImageMagick: through 6.9.7-2; 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1, 7.0.1-2, 7.0.1-3, 7.0.1-4, 7.0.1-5 (+30)

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/95748
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851381
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/6.9.7-3/ChangeLog
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/7.0.4-3/ChangeLog
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c073a7712d82476b5fbee74856c46b88af9c3175
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-09
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=31161
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6

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