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CVE-2017-18219 json

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26.

published 2018-03-05 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-9351

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.

Patch / fix

  • graphicsmagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.3.27-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18219

  • graphicsmagick Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.6
  • graphicsmagick Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18219

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 6.4.3.6-78.40.1
  • GraphicsMagick Studio Onsite 1.3, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.2.5-78.44.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0880-1SUSE-SU-2018:0864-1

  • graphicsmagick Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +12 more 1.3.27-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-18219

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-18219 updated cvss 3.3

GraphicsMagick: Memory allocation failure in coders/png.c:ReadOnePNGImage() allows for denial of service via crafted file

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 GraphicsMagick
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/459/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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