CVE-2017-5511

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% 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

coders/psd.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging an improper cast, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
ImageMagick: before 6.9.7-3; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.4-3 — fixed in 6.9.7-3, 7.0.4-3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.7-3, 7.0.4-3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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/95746
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851374
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/7d65a814ac76bd04760072c33e452371692ee790
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c8c6a0f123d5e35c173125365c97e2c0fc7eca42
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/347
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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