CVE-2017-12429

Publication date 4 August 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadMIFFImage in coders/miff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11

Notes

mdeslaur

0090-Memory-exhaustion-in-mpc-coder.patch in unstable 0265-CVE-2017-12429-Fix-memory-exhaustion-in-ReadMIFFImage.patch in wheezy

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 3ac6c73

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H