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CVE-2017-18231

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function ReadEnhMetaFile in coders/emf.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

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

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/ea074081678b
• 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/475/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/ea074081678b
• 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/475/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

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