NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package graphicsmagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-GRAPHICSMAGICK-352274
  • published17 Sept 2017
  • disclosed17 Sept 2017

Introduced: 17 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14504  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphicsmagick package and not the graphicsmagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

ReadPNMImage in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 does not ensure the correct number of colors for the XV 332 format, leading to a NULL Pointer Dereference.