Medium severity · published Oct 4, 2017
CVE-2017-14997
GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) because of an integer underflow in ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.c
6.5
CVSS
3.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) because of an integer underflow in ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.4% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GR
Graphicsmagick · Graphicsmagick
1.3.26 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14997
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14997
hg.graphicsmagick.org
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=0683f8724200
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101183
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/
Issue Tracking
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/511/
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