CVE-2017-11449 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-11449?

CVE-2017-11449 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 19 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.6-1 does not enable seekable streams and thus cannot validate blob sizes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an image received from stdin.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11449?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11449?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-11449 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick

• CVE-2019-19952 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16328 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16329 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-18210 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14138 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.8

All Imagemagick Imagemagick vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11449, GHSA-gvgg-6q8m-jmph, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11449.