High severity · published Dec 27, 2017
CVE-2017-17915
In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20171217 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadMNGImage in coders/png.c, related to accessing one byte before testing whether a limit…
8.8
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20171217 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadMNGImage in coders/png.c, related to accessing one byte before testing whether a limit has been reached.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GR
Graphicsmagick · Graphicsmagick
1.3.27 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17915
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17915
Patch
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/1721f1b7e67a
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
Issue Tracking
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/535/
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
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