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CVE-2017-15277

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 19.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

ReadGIFImage in coders/gif.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 and GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 leaves the palette uninitialized when processing a GIF file that has neither a global nor local palette. If the affected product is used as a library loaded into a process that operates on interesting data, this data sometimes can be leaked via the uninitialized palette.

Affected products

• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26
• ImageMagick: 7.0.6-1

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9fd10cf630832b36a588c1545d8736539b2f1fb5
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/592
• https://github.com/neex/gifoeb
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4032
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4040
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9fd10cf630832b36a588c1545d8736539b2f1fb5
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/592
• https://github.com/neex/gifoeb

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