CVE-2017-17884: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PNG image file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.7-16 only

Published 2017-12-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.