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medium 6.5

CVE-2017-12676 json

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to ca…

published 2017-08-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-4215

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-15

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12676

  • GraphicsMagick Studio Onsite 1.3, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.2.5-4.78.33.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 6.4.3.6-7.78.29.2
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +8 more 6.8.8.1-71.33.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0413-1SUSE-SU-2018:0350-1SUSE-SU-2018:0349-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12676 updated cvss 3.3

ImageMagick: Memory leak in the function ReadOneJNGImage

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ImageMagick Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.