CVE-2017-7606

Publication date 9 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

coders/rle.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-4 has an "outside the range of representable values of type unsigned char" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	17.04 zesty	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0191-Fix-CVE-2017-7606.patch

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: b218117

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3302-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
30 May 2017