CVE-2017-9098

Publication date 19 May 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 17.04 zesty
Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0216-CVE-2017-9098-use-of-uninitialized-memory-in-RLE-dec.patch

Patch details

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Package Patch details
imagemagick

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3302-1
    • ImageMagick vulnerabilities
    • 30 May 2017

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