CVE-2017-13776

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Published 2017-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
7.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a denial of service issue in ReadXBMImage() in a coders/xbm.c "Read hex image data" version!=10 case that results in the reader not returning; it would cause large amounts of CPU and memory consumption although the crafted file itself does not request it.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13776

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13776.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/233a720bfd5e

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201801-7

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.3.27-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.26-8
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.26-8
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.26-8
debian debiansidfixed1.3.26-8
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.26-8
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick1.3.26

References

CWEs

CWE-834

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.