Medium severity · published Mar 5, 2018
CVE-2017-18219
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26
6.5
CVSS
3.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.
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)3.3% · 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
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GR
Graphicsmagick · Graphicsmagick
1.3.26 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18219
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18219
Patch
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/cadd4b0522fa
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103258
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html
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/
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