CVE-2017-17783

Summary

CVECVE-2017-17783
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-12-20 09:29:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
DescriptionIn GraphicsMagick 1.3.27a, there is a buffer over-read in ReadPALMImage in coders/palm.c when QuantumDepth is 8.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.0 7.5 HIGH from [email protected]

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

EPSS: 0.004580000 probability, percentile 0.641760000 (date 2026-05-18)

Problem Types: CWE-125 | n/a


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.0[email protected]Primary7.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.3.27a All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GraphicsMagick: changeset 15303:60932931559a af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hg.graphicsmagick.org
GraphicsMagick / Bugs / #529 global-buffer-overflow in ReadPALMImage af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4321-1 graphicsmagick af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-4248-1: GraphicsMagick vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
GraphicsMagick: changeset 15303:60932931559a MITRE hg.graphicsmagick.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500986 Alpine Linux Security Update for graphicsmagick
  • 504910 Alpine Linux Security Update for graphicsmagick
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