Medium severity · published Nov 1, 2017
CVE-2017-16353
GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 is vulnerable to a memory information disclosure vulnerability found in the DescribeImage function of the magick/describe.c file, because of a heap-based…
6.5
CVSS
13.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 is vulnerable to a memory information disclosure vulnerability found in the DescribeImage function of the magick/describe.c file, because of a heap-based buffer over-read. The portion of the code containing the vulnerability is responsible for printing the IPTC Profile information contained in the image. This vulnerability can be triggered with a specially crafted MIFF file. There is an out-of-bounds buffer dereference because certain increments are never checked.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)13.7% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GR
Graphicsmagick · Graphicsmagick
1.3.26 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16353
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16353
hg.graphicsmagick.org
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=e4e1c2a581d8
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101653
Exploit
https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3494
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00002.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html
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