CVE-2017-14165

MEDIUM

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 - Denial of Service via Excessive Memory Allocation in ReadSUNImage

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100678
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/493da54370aa
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0230
EPSS Percentile 81.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick 1.3.26
Published Sep 06, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026