CVE-2017-14997

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Published 2017-10-04 · 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) because of an integer underflow in ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.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-2017-14997

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14997.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/ci/0683f8724200495059606c03f04e0d589b33ebe8/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/511/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.26-13
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.26-13
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.26-13
debian debiansidfixed1.3.26-13
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.26-13
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick1.3.26

References

CWEs

CWE-191

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