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CVE-2017-16545

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The ReadWPGImage function in coders/wpg.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 does not properly validate colormapped images, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ImportIndexQuantumType invalid write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed WPG image.

Affected products

• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/e8086faa52d0
• 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/519/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4248-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/e8086faa52d0
• 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/519/

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