{"id":"CVE-2017-14165","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14165","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:26:01.787Z","title":"This may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickMalloc function in magick/memory.c.","description":"The ReadSUNImage function in coders/sun.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header. This may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickMalloc function in magick/memory.c.","published":"2017-09-06T18:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:05:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick"],"epss":{"score":0.02296,"percentile":0.8318,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/493da54370aa","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100678","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickmalloc-memory-c-2/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/493da54370aa","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100678","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickmalloc-memory-c-2/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14165","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}