Critical severity · published Mar 24, 2017
CVE-2017-5511
coders/psd.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging an improper cast, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow
9.8
CVSS
5.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
coders/psd.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging an improper cast, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.5% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
before 6.9.7-3; 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.4-3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5511
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5511
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3799
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/16/6
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/5
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95746
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851374
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/7d65a814ac76bd04760072c33e452371692ee790
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