CVE-2017-16547

high

Published 2017-11-06 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

The DrawImage function in magick/render.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 does not properly look for pop keywords that are associated with push keywords, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (negative strncpy and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

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	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`1.3.27-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.3.26-18`
sid	Fixed	`1.3.26-18`
forky	Fixed	`1.3.26-18`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.3.26-18`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.3.26-18`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
graphicsmagick	graphicsmagick	`1.3.26`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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