CVE-2017-5511

Publication date 17 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

coders/psd.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging an improper cast, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.5
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.8

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0180-Fix-improper-cast-that-could-cause-an-overflow-as-de.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3222-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
8 March 2017