CVE-2017-17682

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Published 2017-12-14 · 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
7.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a large loop vulnerability was found in the function ExtractPostscript in coders/wpg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted wpg image file that triggers a ReadWPGImage call.

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-2017-17682

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17682.html

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
debian debian7.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu17.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.7-12

References

CWEs

CWE-400

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