CVE-2017-14684

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Published 2017-09-22 · 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

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadVIPSImage in coders/vips.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption in ResizeMagickMemory in MagickCore/memory.c) via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3`
sid	Fixed	`8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3`
forky	Fixed	`8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
imagemagick	imagemagick	`7.0.7-4`

References

CWEs

CWE-772

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

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