Resource exhaustion in Graphicsmagick
CVE-2017-18219
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.
Published · last modified .
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: 0.033 (88.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.036 · newest: 0.033 · change: -0.003
Affected products
- Graphicsmagick — versions 1.3.26
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/103258 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/459/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/cadd4b0522fa (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/ (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-18219?
- CVE-2017-18219 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-03-05.
- How severe is CVE-2017-18219?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.