CVE-2017-14042: graphicsmagick

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14042 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in graphicsmagick. EPSS estimates a 2.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 30-08-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.