CVE-2017-11523

Publication date 22 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The ReadTXTImage function in coders/txt.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted file, because the end-of-file condition is not considered.

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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
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0102-CVE-2017-11523-endless-loop-in-ReadTXTImage.patch in unstable This is 0087-CVE-2017-11523-endless-loop-in-ReadTXTImage.patch in stretch This is 0243-Fix-endless-loop-in-ReadTXTImage.patch in wheezy not fixing memory leak in trusty and xenial

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: a8f9c2a

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-2017-11523