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CVE-2017-18219

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/cadd4b0522fa
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103258
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html
• 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/459/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/cadd4b0522fa
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103258
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html

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