CVE-2017-17912

moderate-risk
Published 2017-12-27

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20171217 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadNewsProfile in coders/tiff.c, in which LocaleNCompare reads heap data beyond the allocated region.

Do I need to act?

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0.83% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

Debian Graphicsmagick

References (12)

Patch http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
Issue Tracking https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
Patch http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
Issue Tracking https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 10/34 · Low