VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-17499

critical
Published 2017-12-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

ImageMagick before 6.9.9-24 and 7.x before 7.0.7-12 has a use-after-free in Magick::Image::read in Magick++/lib/Image.cpp.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
18.04 Affected —
17.10 Affected —
16.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed 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
9.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick{"startIncluding":"7.0.0-0","endExcluding":"7.0.7-12"}7.0.7-12

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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

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