CVE-2017-11166

Summary

CVECVE-2017-11166
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-07-10 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
DescriptionThe ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 6.5 MEDIUM from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-772 | n/a


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary6.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Imagemagick Imagemagick 7.0.5-6 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
memory exhaustion in ReadXWDImage · Issue #471 · ImageMagick/ImageMagick · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 355822 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for php71-pecl-imagick : ALAS-2023-1814
  • 355823 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for php56-pecl-imagick : ALAS-2023-1811
  • 355824 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for php54-pecl-imagick : ALAS-2023-1810
  • 355828 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for php55-pecl-imagick : ALAS-2023-1812
  • 355829 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for php70-pecl-imagick : ALAS-2023-1813
  • 355832 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for php72-pecl-imagick : ALAS-2023-1815
  • 357342 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ImageMagick : ALAS-2024-1926
  • 377297 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for imagemagick (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0071)
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