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CVE-2017-14649

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick version 1.3.26 does not properly validate JNG data, leading to a denial of service (assertion failure in magick/pixel_cache.c, and application crash).

Affected products

• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/358608a46f0a
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100958
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/19/graphicsmagick-assertion-failure-in-pixel_cache-c/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/439/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/
• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/358608a46f0a
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100958
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/19/graphicsmagick-assertion-failure-in-pixel_cache-c/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/

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