Improper Input Validation Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GRAPHICSMAGICK-352463
  • published23 Aug 2017
  • disclosed23 Aug 2017

Introduced: 23 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13147  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphicsmagick package and not the graphicsmagick package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.26, an allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadMNGImage in coders/png.c when a small MNG file has a MEND chunk with a large length value.