CVE-2017-9142 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-9142?

CVE-2017-9142 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 May 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

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16, a crafted file could trigger an assertion failure in the WriteBlob function in MagickCore/blob.c because of missing checks in the ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c.

Weakness: CWE-617, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9142?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9142?

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-2017-9142 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9142 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9142, GHSA-6p6w-fgp7-qj6r, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9142.