CVE-2017-14175
In coders/xbm.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 Q16, a DoS in ReadXBMImage() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
In coders/xbm.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 Q16, a DoS in ReadXBMImage() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted XBM file, which claims large rows and columns fields in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop over the rows would consume huge CPU resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.12% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-834
- Affected
- imagemagick/imagemagick · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d9a8234d211da30baf9526fbebe9a8438ea7e11cPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/712Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d9a8234d211da30baf9526fbebe9a8438ea7e11cPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/712Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.