CVE-2017-14173

Publication date 7 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In the function ReadTXTImage() in coders/txt.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-10, an integer overflow might occur for the addition operation "GetQuantumRange(depth)+1" when "depth" is large, producing a smaller value than expected. As a result, an infinite loop would occur for a crafted TXT file that claims a very large "max_value" value.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.2
	17.10 artful	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.2
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11

Notes

mdeslaur

0312-CVE-2017-14173-Fix-infinite-loop-in-ReadTXTImage.patch in wheezy

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 48bcf7c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H