What is CVE-2017-14165?

CVE-2017-14165 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-14165?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2017-14165

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-09-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Graphicsmagick — versions 1.3.26

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-mag… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100678 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/493da54370aa (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/ (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14165?: CVE-2017-14165 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-14165?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.