CVE-2017-12665 — ImageMagick: Memory leak vulnerability in WritePICTImage function in coders/pict.c

HIGH

ImageMagick: Memory leak vulnerability in WritePICTImage function in coders/pict.c

Published Aug 7, 2017

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 1.69%

ImageMagick 7.0.6-2 has a memory leak vulnerability in WritePICTImage in coders/pict.c.

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	ImageMagick	Will not fix	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	ImageMagick	Will not fix	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	ImageMagick	Will not fix	n/a
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2	ImageMagick	Will not fix	n/a

No remediation recorded yet.

1.69% 0.01690

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01690

2021–2026

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.69% (0.01690)	76.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	1.46% (0.01457)	72.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.17% (0.00169)	54.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 3, 2023	0.17% (0.00169)	53.30th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.24% (0.00241)	60.28th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.62% (0.00624)	17.80th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.62% (0.00624)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

CWE-772

Link	Providers	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12665		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483102		Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c1b09bbec148f6ae11d0b686fdb89ac6dc0ab14e		x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/577		x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12665
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12665