UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14042

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14042

    Published: 30 Aug 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-14042
    Aliases:
    USN-4206-1

    Summary:

    Details: A memory allocation failure was discovered in the ReadPNMImage function in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14042, https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/08/28/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c-2/, https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/441/, http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/3bbf7a13643d, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4206-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14042

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: graphicsmagick

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm1

    Affected versions

    1.3.16-1.1ubuntu2
    1.3.16-1.1ubuntu3
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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