CVE-2017-16669

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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: yes
Published: 2017-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

coders/wpg.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, related to the AcquireCacheNexus function in magick/pixel_cache.c.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/135bdcb88b8d
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/1b9e64a8901e
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/2a21cda3145b
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/2b7c826d36af
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3dc7b4e3779d
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/75245a215fff
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/e8086faa52d0
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/fcd3ed3394f6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101795
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00013.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/450/

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