CVE-2017-16352

high
Published 2017-11-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability found in the "Display visual image directory" feature of the DescribeImage() function of the magick/describe.c file. One possible way to trigger the vulnerability is to run the identify command on a specially crafted MIFF format file with the verbose flag.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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-2017-16352

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16352.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/snapshots/ChangeLog.txt

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.26-17
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.26-17
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.26-17
debian debiansidfixed1.3.26-17
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.26-17
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick1.3.26

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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