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CVE-2017-15238

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a use-after-free issue when the height or width is zero, related to ReadJNGImage.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=93bdb9b30076
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=df946910910d
• 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/469/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=93bdb9b30076
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=df946910910d
• 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/469/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

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