Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 14, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-18229
CVE-2017-18229
Description
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.
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Affected products
3- Range: <=1.3.26
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/suse/GraphicsMagick&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/GraphicsMagick&distro=SUSE%20Studio%20Onsite%201.3
< 1.2.5-78.52.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.2.5-78.52.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.2.5-78.52.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/752c0b41fa32nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321nvdThird Party Advisory
- sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/461/nvdRelease Notes
- usn.ubuntu.com/4266-1/nvd
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