CVE-2017-9098: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick: before 1.3.24 (fixed in 1.3.24)
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: before 6.9.8-1 (fixed in 6.9.8-1); from 7.0.0-0, before 7.0.5-2 (fixed in 7.0.5-2)

Published 2017-05-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.