FKIE_CVE-2017-14042

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-08-30 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:05
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A memory allocation failure was discovered in the ReadPNMImage function in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643dIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643dIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
graphicsmagick graphicsmagick 1.3.26
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