CVE-2017-14042

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.4%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2017-08-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

graphicsmagick:graphicsmagick

References

http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643d
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100556
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4206-1/
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643d

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