CVE-2017-14165

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Published 2017-09-06 · 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

The ReadSUNImage function in coders/sun.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header. This may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickMalloc 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-2017-14165

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14165.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/06/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickmalloc-memory-c-2/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/493da54370aa

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 debianbookwormfixed1.3.26-9
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.