CVE-2017-14042
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
A memory allocation failure was discovered in the ReadPNMImage function in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.3.26-9 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.3.26-9 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.3.26-9 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.3.26-9 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.3.26-9 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| graphicsmagick | graphicsmagick | 1.3.26 | |
References
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643d
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14042.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14042
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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