CVE-2017-17912

HIGH

Graphicsmagick - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20171217 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadNewsProfile in coders/tiff.c, in which LocaleNCompare reads heap data beyond the allocated region.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0083
EPSS Percentile 74.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick 1.3.27
Published Dec 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026