What is CVE-2017-5508?

CVE-2017-5508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2017-5508?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-5508

Heap-based buffer overflow in the PushQuantumPixel function in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-3 and 7.x before 7.0.4-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-03-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.029 (86.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1, 7.0.1-2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/6.9.7-3/ChangeLog (Release Notes)
www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-09 (vendor-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799 (vendor-advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c073a7712d82476b5fbee74856c46b88af9c3… (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95748 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/5 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/7.0.4-3/ChangeLog (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5508?: CVE-2017-5508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2017-5508?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.