CVE-2017-18229
Moderate
CVE-2017-18229
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.
Exploit probability
2.3%
Published
March 14, 2018
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-2017-18229
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/752c0b41fa32
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/461/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321