What is CVE-2017-10794?

CVE-2017-10794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-10794?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2017-10794

When GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 processes an RGB TIFF picture (with metadata indicating a single sample per pixel) in coders/tiff.c, a buffer overflow occurs, related to QuantumTransferMode.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-07-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (74.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-06.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Graphicsmagick — versions 1.3.25

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/ci/a20bee0a0ad216aa11a2be3de63b60ca6bef41… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321 (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99355 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-10794?: CVE-2017-10794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-10794?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.