CVE-2017-18229

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-03-14 · 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 ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
GraphicsMagick: 1.3.26

References

http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/752c0b41fa32
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/461/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/752c0b41fa32
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/461/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

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