Out-of-bounds Read Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-IMAGEMAGICK-400764
  • published6 Mar 2017
  • disclosed6 Mar 2017

Introduced: 6 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6500  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 imagemagick to version 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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