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CVE-2017-6501

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2017-02-10
CWE:: CWE-476

Bugzilla:: 1429555: CVE-2017-6501 ImageMagick: NULL pointer dereference in xcf.c

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 6.9.7. A specially crafted xcf file could lead to a NULL pointer dereference.

Find out more about CVE-2017-6501 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score	3.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Low

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2	ImageMagick	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	ImageMagick	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	ImageMagick	Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	ImageMagick	Will not fix

Last Modified 2018-05-01T07:57:14+00:00

CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation