CVE-2017-6499

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6499
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6499.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6499
Downstream
Published
2017-03-06T02:59:00.587Z
Modified
2026-03-17T06:34:27.409573Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Magick++ in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted file creating a nested exception could lead to a memory leak (thus, a DoS).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
3358f060fc182551822576b2c0a8850faab5d543
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick6
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2b6357621f2d4752dd3b83fce2570e6d4382121e
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.9.7"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

6.*
6.9.4-0
6.9.4-1
6.9.4-10
6.9.4-2
6.9.4-3
6.9.4-4
6.9.4-5
6.9.4-6
6.9.4-7
6.9.4-8
6.9.4-9
6.9.5-0
6.9.5-1
6.9.5-10
6.9.5-2
6.9.5-3
6.9.5-4
6.9.5-5
6.9.5-6
6.9.5-7
6.9.5-8
6.9.5-9
6.9.6-0
6.9.6-1
6.9.6-2
6.9.6-3
6.9.6-4
6.9.6-5
6.9.6-6
6.9.6-7
6.9.6-8
6.9.7-0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6499.json"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick/commit/3358f060fc182551822576b2c0a8850faab5d543",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "248660036944386108087793670833917111321",
            "length": 3492.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-6499-8cc4e5e2",
        "target": {
            "file": "Magick++/lib/Exception.cpp",
            "function": "Magick::throwException"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function"
    },
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick/commit/3358f060fc182551822576b2c0a8850faab5d543",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "6058760152057690314957711263477748557",
                "222437857192992042891852274709053450949",
                "50242467735298415675732450125462585538",
                "147686671176218989504610134138533084043",
                "220932942829007231307659732853770545817",
                "37221708634744324167224626411514613768",
                "220604776083631158661753124968767850186",
                "242680235252163597621729696455996227181",
                "183140778294923579858367659229865297313"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-6499-b8e2ce33",
        "target": {
            "file": "Magick++/lib/Exception.cpp"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line"
    }
]
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]