Buffer overflow in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-11636

 

Buffer overflow in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-11636

Published: July 26, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33192
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11636
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a heap overflow in the WriteRGBImage() function in coders/rgb.c when processing multiple frames that have non-identical widths.


Affected software

GraphicsMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2017-11636

Install update from vendor's website.

GraphicsMagick - update to 1.3.27
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.28-1.el6, 1.3.28-1.el7, 1.3.28-1.fc26, 1.3.28-1.fc27

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