Critical
Security advisory
ImageMagick before 6.9.9-24 and 7.x before 7.0.7-12 has a use-after-free in Magick::Image::read in Magick++/lib/Image.cpp.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-17499
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ImageMagick before 6.9.9-24 and 7.x before 7.0.7-12 has a use-after-free in Magick::Image::read in Magick++/lib/Image.cpp.
osv:CVE-2017-17499
Complete source record
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