CVE-2019-17540

Publication date 14 October 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick before 7.0.8-54 has a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadPSInfo in coders/ps.c.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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introduced in: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/bfb5bdd6b41dac60d5171108fc02ecaf8735c4a8

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: b9261b1 Upstream: 5a4c9cf Upstream: 41399a3 Upstream: 4ba4dc7

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17540

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