CVE-2017-14733

medium

Description

ReadRLEImage in coders/rle.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 mishandles RLE headers that specify too few colors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file.

References

Advisories
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https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/

https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/458/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-6230

http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=5381c71724e3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-09-25

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H