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CVE-2017-9142

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16, a crafted file could trigger an assertion failure in the WriteBlob function in MagickCore/blob.c because of missing checks in the ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.5-7

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98683
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f0232a2a45dfd003c1faf6079497895df3ab0ee1
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/490
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98683
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f0232a2a45dfd003c1faf6079497895df3ab0ee1
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/490

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