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high 7.5

CVE-2017-9098 json

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensi…

published 2017-05-19 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18036

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

Patch / fix

  • imagemagick imagemagick 6.9.8-1, 7.0.5-2
  • graphicsmagick graphicsmagick 1.3.24
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-9
  • graphicsmagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.24-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9098

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9098

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • GraphicsMagick Studio Onsite 1.3, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.2.5-4.77.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 6.4.3.6-7.77.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +3 more 6.8.8.1-70.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1600-1SUSE-SU-2017:1599-1SUSE-SU-2017:1489-1

  • imagemagick Arch Linux 7.0.5.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-939

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-2017-9098 updated cvss 5.1

ImageMagick: use of uninitialized memory in RLE decoder

  • 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 Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ImageMagick
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

3.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Sources

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