CVE-2017-6500

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6500
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6500.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6500
Downstream
Published
2017-03-06T02:59:00.620Z
Modified
2026-04-11T16:23:59.294322Z
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 ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted sun file triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        }
    ]
}
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
3007531bfd326c5c1e29cd41d2cd80c166de8528
Database specific 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6500.json"
vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "target": {
            "file": "coders/sun.c"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick/commit/3007531bfd326c5c1e29cd41d2cd80c166de8528",
        "id": "CVE-2017-6500-31e78dbb",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "179178196192680898083208185274130627141",
                "313233156785695662315350098460276820354",
                "51730324164113967841346982871171085349",
                "31650435075901187446359043112193854777"
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "target": {
            "function": "ReadSUNImage",
            "file": "coders/sun.c"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick/commit/3007531bfd326c5c1e29cd41d2cd80c166de8528",
        "id": "CVE-2017-6500-8c4c113b",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "56495558914728892367596541404940632436",
            "length": 10208.0
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T16:23:59Z"

Git / github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick6

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick6
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2b6357621f2d4752dd3b83fce2570e6d4382121e
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.9.7"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick: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-2017-6500.json"