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GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 20, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) because of an integer underflow in ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.c.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 4, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Last updated Apr 20, 2025

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(83rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2017-14997

GHSA ID

GHSA-f9r8-4r5p-xq44

Source code

No known source code

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