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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-18219

An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 3.34%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.

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
3.34% probability · 88th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Affected
graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.