CVE-2017-14042

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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
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

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.

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-2017-14042

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14042.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643d

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.26-9
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.26-9
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.26-9
debian debiansidfixed1.3.26-9
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.26-9

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick1.3.26

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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