CVE-2017-16353

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Published 2017-11-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 is vulnerable to a memory information disclosure vulnerability found in the DescribeImage function of the magick/describe.c file, because of a heap-based buffer over-read. The portion of the code containing the vulnerability is responsible for printing the IPTC Profile information contained in the image. This vulnerability can be triggered with a specially crafted MIFF file. There is an out-of-bounds buffer dereference because certain increments are never checked.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

{Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/snapshots/ChangeLog.txt}

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43111 dos multiple

SecuriTeam · 2017-11-03

GraphicsMagick - Memory Disclosure / Heap Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 8 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.3.26-17`
sid	Fixed	`1.3.26-17`
forky	Fixed	`1.3.26-17`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.3.26-17`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.3.26-17`
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
graphicsmagick	graphicsmagick	`1.3.26`

References

CWEs

CWE-125 CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.