VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-14042
The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.38%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.38% probability · 83th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643dIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643dIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.