UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17912

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17912

    Published: 27 Dec 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-17912
    Aliases:
    USN-4266-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17912, http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/0d871e813a4f, https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/533/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4266-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17912

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: graphicsmagick

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm6?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm6

    Affected versions

    1.3.16-1.1ubuntu2
    1.3.16-1.1ubuntu3
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm1
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm2
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm3
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm4
    1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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    High