CVE-2017-17912

high
Published 2017-12-27 · 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

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20171217 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadNewsProfile in coders/tiff.c, in which LocaleNCompare reads heap data beyond the allocated region.

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-2017-17912

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17912.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.27-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.27-3
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.27-3
debian debiansidfixed1.3.27-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.27-3
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick1.3.27

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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