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CVE-2017-14997

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-191

Description

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) because of an integer underflow in ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=0683f8724200
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101183
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
• 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/511/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/ci/0683f8724200495059606c03f04e0d589b33ebe8/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=0683f8724200
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101183
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html

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