CVE-2017-17499 (GCVE-0-2017-17499)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-11 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
ImageMagick before 6.9.9-24 and 7.x before 7.0.7-12 has a use-after-free in Magick::Image::read in Magick++/lib/Image.cpp.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4074 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/view… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102155 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Date Public
2017-12-10 00:00
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"current_release_date": "2026-05-13T03:50:19+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2017-17499",
"id": "CVE-2017-17499",
"initial_release_date": "2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_affected": "15",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "ImageMagick: Use-after-free in Magick::Image::read",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2017/cve-2017-17499.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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