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CVE-2017-11642

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 26, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11642
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a NULL pointer dereference in the WriteMAPImage() function in coders/map.c when processing a non-colormapped image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-11638.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.3.26 (including) 1.3.26 (including)
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu artful *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu trusty *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu upstream *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu xenial *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References

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