CVE-2017-12643

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Published 2017-08-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
7.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has a memory exhaustion vulnerability in ReadOneJNGImage in coders\png.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-2017-12643

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12643.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/549

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d9ccd8227c4c88a907cda5278408b73552cb0c07

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-15
debian debianbullseyefixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-15
debian debianforkyfixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-15
debian debiansidfixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-15
debian debiantrixiefixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-15
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.6-1

References

CWEs

CWE-770

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