CVE-2017-17500

high
Published 2017-12-11 · 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

ReadRGBImage in coders/rgb.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a magick/import.c ImportRGBQuantumType heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted file.

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-2017-17500

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17500.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/1366f2dd9931

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.27-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.27-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.27-1
debian debiansidfixed1.3.27-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.27-1
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick1.3.26

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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