What is CVE-2017-7275?

CVE-2017-7275 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 2017-03-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-7275?

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

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-7275

The ReadPCXImage function in coders/pcx.c in ImageMagick 7.0.4.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (attempted large memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8862 and CVE-2016-8866.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-03-27 · 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: 0.014 (71.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.4-9

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/271 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/27/imagemagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-acquir… (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97166 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7275?: CVE-2017-7275 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 2017-03-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-7275?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.