CVE-2017-13144

Publication date 23 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

In ImageMagick before 6.9.7-10, there is a crash (rather than a "width or height exceeds limit" error report) if the image dimensions are too large, as demonstrated by use of the mpc coder.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm8

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Notes

mdeslaur

0085-Avoid-a-crash-in-mpc-coder.patch in unstable 0081-Avoid-a-crash-in-mpc-coder.patch in stretch 0297-CVE-2017-13144-Fix-application-crash-if-image-dimensions-are-too-large.patch in wheezy 0261-CVE-2017-13144.patch in jessie

sbeattie

this fix introduced a regression in xenial and trusty (LP: #1793485) and was reverted for those releases in USN 3785-1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
imagemagick

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3681-1
    • ImageMagick vulnerabilities
    • 12 June 2018
    • USN-5335-1
    • ImageMagick vulnerabilities
    • 18 March 2022
    • USN-6980-1
    • ImageMagick vulnerabilities
    • 22 August 2024

Other references