CVE-2017-11505

Publication date 21 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (large loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed JNG file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	17.04 zesty	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.2
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.8
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.8

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0242-CPU-exhaustion-in-ReadOneJNGImage.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11505