What is CVE-2017-9144?

CVE-2017-9144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-05-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-9144?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Imagemagick

CVE-2017-9144

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, a crafted RLE image can trigger a crash because of incorrect EOF handling in coders/rle.c.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.019 (76.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.5-5
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9144?: CVE-2017-9144 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-05-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-9144?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.