What is CVE-2017-10799?

CVE-2017-10799 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2017-10799?

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

Resource exhaustion in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2017-10799

When GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 processes a DPX image (with metadata indicating a large width) in coders/dpx.c, a denial of service (OOM) can occur in ReadDPXImage().

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-07-03 · 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: 0.013 (68.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Graphicsmagick — versions 1.3.25

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/f10b9bb3ca62 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321 (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/99358 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00015.html (mailing-list)
usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-10799?: CVE-2017-10799 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2017-10799?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.