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CVE-2017-17912

• 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: 2017-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20171217 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadNewsProfile in coders/tiff.c, in which LocaleNCompare reads heap data beyond the allocated region.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.27

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

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