CVE-2017-9098 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2017-9098?

CVE-2017-9098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 May 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9098?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9098?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-9098 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9098 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9098, DLA-953-1, GHSA-3j7x-gh3j-ghqj, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9098.