CVE-2017-11446

Publication date 19 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The ReadPESImage function in coders\pes.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has an infinite loop vulnerability that can cause CPU exhaustion via a crafted PES file.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

this is 0086-CVE-2017-11446.patch in unstable this is 0082-CVE-2017-11446.patch in stretch this is 0245-CVE-2017-11446-Fix-infinite-loop-CPU-exhaustion-in-ReadPESImage.patch in wheezy not fixing memory leak in trusty and xenial

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 9618288

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11446