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CVE-2017-6499

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

An issue was discovered in Magick++ in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted file creating a nested exception could lead to a memory leak (thus, a DoS).

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 6.9.7

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3808
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96590
• https://bugs.debian.org/856880
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3358f060fc182551822576b2c0a8850faab5d543
• https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=23&p=142634
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3808
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96590
• https://bugs.debian.org/856880
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3358f060fc182551822576b2c0a8850faab5d543
• https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=23&p=142634

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