CVE-2017-9098

Publication date 19 May 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	17.04 zesty	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0216-CVE-2017-9098-use-of-uninitialized-memory-in-RLE-dec.patch

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 1c358ff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3302-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
30 May 2017