CVE-2017-17912
High
CVE-2017-17912
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.
Exploit probability
1.8%
Published
December 27, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-17912
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321