CVE-2017-9499 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16, an assertion failure was found in the function SetPixelChannelAttributes, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16, an assertion failure was found in the function SetPixelChannelAttributes, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-06-07 14:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

ImageMagick 7.0.5-7

7.0.5-7

References

98944

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/7fd419441bc7103398e313558171d342c6315f44

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/492

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

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