CVE-2017-12587

Publication date 6 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has a large loop vulnerability in the ReadPWPImage function in coders\pwp.c.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11

Notes

mdeslaur

0142-Avoid-unbounded-loop-in-pwp-coder.patch in unstable 0098-Avoid-unbounded-loop-in-pwp-coder.patchin stretch 0276-CVE-2017-12587-Fix-large-loop-vulnerability-in-ReadPWPImage.patch in wheezy

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: d4192df

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H