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CVE-2017-6500

• 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-125

Description

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted sun file triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

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/96592
• https://bugs.debian.org/856879
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3007531bfd326c5c1e29cd41d2cd80c166de8528
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/375
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/376
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3808
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96592
• https://bugs.debian.org/856879
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3007531bfd326c5c1e29cd41d2cd80c166de8528
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/375
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/376

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