Buffer over-read in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-17912
Published: December 27, 2017 / Updated: January 29, 2018
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in ReadNewsProfile in coders/tiff.c, in which LocaleNCompare reads heap data beyond the allocated region. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Ubuntu
graphicsmagick (Ubuntu package)
libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (Ubuntu package)
libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (Ubuntu package)
GraphicsMagick
How to mitigate CVE-2017-17912
libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.6
libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.6
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.28-1.el6, 1.3.28-1.el7, 1.3.28-1.fc26, 1.3.28-1.fc27