Vulnerability in Imagemagick
CVE-2017-14175
In coders/xbm.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 Q16, a DoS in ReadXBMImage() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted XBM file, which claims large rows and columns fields in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop over the rows would consume huge CPU resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (81.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Imagemagick — versions 7.0.6-1
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
- Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/712 (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d9a8234d211da30baf9526fbebe9a8438ea7e… (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-14175?
- CVE-2017-14175 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Excessive Iteration. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-07.
- How severe is CVE-2017-14175?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.