#VU33243 Buffer overflow in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-14042

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#VU33243 Buffer overflow in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-14042

Published: August 31, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33243
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14042
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
GraphicsMagick
Software vendor:
GraphicsMagick Group

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

A memory allocation failure was discovered in the ReadPNMImage function in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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