NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package imagemagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-IMAGEMAGICK-615873
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed6 Mar 2017

Introduced: 6 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted psd file could lead to a NULL pointer dereference (thus, a DoS).