CVE-2017-14042
N/A
Published: August 30, 2017 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGraphicsMagick
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643dVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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