CVE-2017-17682: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a large loop vulnerability was found in the function ExtractPostscript in coders/wpg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted wpg image file that triggers a ReadWPGImage call.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.7-12 only

Published 2017-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.