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Reachable Assertion

CVE-2017-18252

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.9-17 and ImageMagick 7.x before 7.0.7-5. The MogrifyImageList function in "MagickWand/mogrify.c" allows attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit in ReplaceImageInList) via a crafted file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published