CVE-2017-8344

medium
Published 2017-04-30 · 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
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, the ReadPCXImage function in pcx.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7
debian debianbullseyefixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7
debian debianforkyfixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7
debian debiansidfixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7
debian debiantrixiefixed8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-5

References

CWEs

CWE-772

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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