CVE-2017-12433

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Published 2017-08-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadPESImage in coders/pes.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service, related to ResizeMagickMemory in memory.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12433

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12433.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/548

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
debian debianbullseyefixed8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
debian debianforkyfixed8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
debian debiansidfixed8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
debian debiantrixiefixed8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.6-1

References

CWEs

CWE-772

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.