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CVE-2017-14042

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• 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/
• 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/

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