CVE-2017-14649 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via crafted JNG images in GraphicsMagick, crashing the application through an assertion failure.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-14649?
CVE-2017-14649 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, published on 21 Sep 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick version 1.3.26 does not properly validate JNG data, leading to a denial of service (assertion failure in magick/pixel_cache.c, and application crash).
Weakness: CWE-617
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14649?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick.
How do I fix CVE-2017-14649?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-14649 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14649 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14649, GHSA-8v66-g29x-3vxg, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14649.