Reachable Assertion in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-14649
Published: September 21, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33444
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14649
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick version 1.3.26 does not properly validate JNG data, leading to a denial of service (assertion failure in magick/pixel_cache.c, and application crash).
Affected software
GraphicsMagick
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick
Fedora
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2017-14649
Install update from vendor's website.
graphicsmagick (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.27-r0
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.32-1.fc29, 1.3.32-1.fc30, 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.32-1.fc29, 1.3.32-1.fc30, 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8
External References
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/358608a46f0a
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100958
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/19/graphicsmagick-assertion-failure-in-pixel_cache-c/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/439/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/