{"id":"CVE-2017-16669","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16669","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:47:45.842Z","title":"coders/wpg.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, related to the AcquireCacheNexus function in…","description":"coders/wpg.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, related to the AcquireCacheNexus function in magick/pixel_cache.c.","published":"2017-11-09T00:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:09:39.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.03397,"percentile":0.88768,"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":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/135bdcb88b8d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/1b9e64a8901e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/2a21cda3145b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/2b7c826d36af","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3dc7b4e3779d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/75245a215fff","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/e8086faa52d0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/fcd3ed3394f6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101795","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00013.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/450/","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4248-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/135bdcb88b8d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/1b9e64a8901e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/2a21cda3145b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/2b7c826d36af","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3dc7b4e3779d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/75245a215fff","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/e8086faa52d0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/fcd3ed3394f6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101795","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00013.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/450/","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4248-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16669","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."}