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Debian: CVE-2017-17682: imagemagick -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 14, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a large loop vulnerability was found in the function ExtractPostscript in coders/wpg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted wpg image file that triggers a ReadWPGImage call.

Solution

debian-upgrade-imagemagick
Title
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