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CVE-2017-18229 json

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26.

published 2018-03-14 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-9361

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18229

  • 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-2017-18229

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

  • GraphicsMagick Studio Onsite 1.3, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.2.5-78.52.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1163-1

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

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-18229

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-2017-18229 updated cvss 3.3

GraphicsMagick: allocation failure in ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c

  • 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

2.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • hg.graphicsmagick.org http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/752c0b41fa32 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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