CVE-2017-12642

Publication date 7 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has a memory leak vulnerability in ReadMPCImage in coders\mpc.c.

Read the notes from the security team

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

0091-Fix-a-leak-in-mpc-file-due-to-corrupted-profiles.patch in unstable 0278-CVE-2017-12642-Fix-memory-leak-vulnerability-in-ReadMPCImage-1-2.patch and 0279-CVE-2017-12642-Fix-memory-leak-vulnerability-in-ReadMPCImage-2-2.patch in wheezy not fixing memory leak in trusty and xenial

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12642