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CVE-2017-17682

medium

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a large loop vulnerability was found in the function ExtractPostscript in coders/wpg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted wpg image file that triggers a ReadWPGImage call.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00000.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102202

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-14

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01241