CVE-2017-9499

medium

Published 2017-06-07 · 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 7.0.5-7 Q16, an assertion failure was found in the function SetPixelChannelAttributes, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
imagemagick	imagemagick	`7.0.5-7`

References

CWEs

CWE-617

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