Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU39583

Out-of-bounds read in ImageMagick and Debian Linux - CVE-2017-6500

Published: March 6, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU39583

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6500

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted sun file triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

ImageMagick
Debian Linux

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