VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-11523

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Published 2017-07-22 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The ReadTXTImage function in coders/txt.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted file, because the end-of-file condition is not considered.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14
sid Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14
forky Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14
bullseye Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14
bookworm Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick{"endIncluding":"6.9.9-0"}
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.0-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-1
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-2
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-3
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-4
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-5
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-6
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-7
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-8
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-9
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-10
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-1
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-2
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-3
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-4
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-5
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-6
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-7
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-8
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-9
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.2-10
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-1
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-2
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-3
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-4
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-5
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-6
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-7
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-8
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-9
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.3-10
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-1
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-2
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-3
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-4
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-5
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-6
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-7
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-8
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-9
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.4-10
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-1
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-4
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-5
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-6
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-7
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.5-8
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.6-1

References

CWEs

CWE-835

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

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