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CVE-2017-11640 (GCVE-0-2017-11640)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-26 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:12
VLAI
Summary
When ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 processes a crafted file in convert, it can lead to an address access exception in the WritePTIFImage() function in coders/tiff.c.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99989 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2017-07-25 00:00
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