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CVE-2017-17682

ImageMagick: Resource exhaustion in ExtractPostscript function in coders/wpg.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · December 14, 2017

Updated · May 13, 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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption