Medium severity · published Mar 14, 2018
CVE-2017-18231
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26
6.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function ReadEnhMetaFile in coders/emf.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
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)1.7% · higher than 77% 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-2017-18231
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18231
Patch
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/ea074081678b
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
Issue Tracking
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/475/
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
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