CVE-2017-16546

NameCVE-2017-16546
DescriptionThe ReadWPGImage function in coders/wpg.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-9 does not properly validate the colormap index in a WPG palette, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use of uninitialized data or invalid memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed WPG file.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4040-1, DSA-4074-1
Debian Bugs881392

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
imagemagick (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u27fixed
stretch (security)8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u14fixed
stretch (lts), stretch8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u20fixed
buster, buster (lts)8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u9fixed
buster (security)8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u7fixed
bullseye8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u4fixed
bullseye (security)8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u3fixed
bookworm8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie8:7.1.1.39+dfsg1-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
imagemagicksourcewheezy(not affected)
imagemagicksourcejessie8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u11DSA-4040-1
imagemagicksourcestretch8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u4DSA-4074-1
imagemagicksource(unstable)8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3881392

Notes

[wheezy] - imagemagick <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; PoC from GitHub issue results in memory allocation exception thrown at coders/wpg.c:1109 and valgrind does not report any issues)
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2130bf6f89ded32ef0c88a11694f107c52566c53
ImageMagick-6: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e04cf3e9524f50ca336253513d977224e083b816
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/851

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