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CVE-2017-17498

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

WritePNMImage in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bit_stream.c MagickBitStreamMSBWrite heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Affected products

• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/f1c418ef0260
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102158
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.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/525/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4248-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/f1c418ef0260
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102158
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html

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