CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18231

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 14, 2018 | Modified: Feb 10, 2020
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function ReadEnhMetaFile in coders/emf.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.3.26 (including) 1.3.26 (including)
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu artful *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu trusty *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu upstream *
Graphicsmagick Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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