6.5

CVE-2017-14505: imagemagick NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 6.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-14505DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14505
Published 17-09-2017Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14505 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in imagemagick. EPSS estimates a 1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.49%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 4
DLA-1131-1DLA-1785-1DLA-2366-1SUSE-SU-2018:0857-1SUSE-SU-2018:0864-1SUSE-SU-2018:0880-1

Timeline

  1. 17-09-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

DrawGetStrokeDashArray in wand/drawing-wand.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-1 mishandles certain NULL arrays, which allows attackers to perform Denial of Service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash in AcquireQuantumMemory within MagickCore/memory.c) by providing a crafted Image File as input.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.49%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

74%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.49% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.49%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • imagemagick< 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
Imagemagick1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • imagemagick< 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11 | < 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11 | < 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.2

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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