Name: CVE-2017-12432: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-12432, CWE-770, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.02085

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadPCXImage in coders/pcx.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade imagemagick	Dec 5, 2017	Aug 4, 2017
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Aug 4, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade GraphicsMagickUpgrade libMagick++1Upgrade libMagickWand-6_Q16-1Upgrade perl-PerlMagickUpgrade ImageMagick-develUpgrade libMagick++-develUpgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1Upgrade libMagickWand1Upgrade libMagickCore-6_Q16-1-32bitUpgrade libMagick++-6_Q16-3Upgrade ImageMagick-config-6-SUSEUpgrade ImageMagickUpgrade libMagickWand1-32bitUpgrade perl-GraphicsMagickUpgrade ImageMagick-config-6-upstreamUpgrade libMagickCore1Upgrade libMagickCore1-32bitUpgrade libGraphicsMagick2	Feb 21, 2018	Aug 4, 2017
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libmagick++-6.q16-5v5Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extraUpgrade imagemagick-6.q16Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3Upgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-2Upgrade libmagickcore5Upgrade libmagick++-6.q16-7Upgrade imagemagickUpgrade libmagickcore5-extraUpgrade libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extraUpgrade libmagick++5	Jun 19, 2018	Aug 4, 2017

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CVSS Details

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