GraphicsMagick up to 1.3.45 WPG uninitialized resource

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in GraphicsMagick up to 1.3.45. The affected element is an unknown function of the component WPG. Such manipulation leads to uninitialized resource. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-27796. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in GraphicsMagick up to 1.3.45. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component WPG. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uninitialized resource vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-908. The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

ReadWPGImage in WPG in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.46 mishandles palette buffer allocation, resulting in out-of-bounds access to heap memory in ReadBlob.

The advisory is available at graphicsmagick.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-27796 since 03/07/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232312 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-27796), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.3.46 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (232312) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-6239). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

• Image Processing Software

Name

• GraphicsMagick

Version

• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.3.8
• 1.3.9
• 1.3.10
• 1.3.11
• 1.3.12
• 1.3.13
• 1.3.14
• 1.3.15
• 1.3.16
• 1.3.17
• 1.3.18
• 1.3.19
• 1.3.20
• 1.3.21
• 1.3.22
• 1.3.23
• 1.3.24
• 1.3.25
• 1.3.26
• 1.3.27
• 1.3.28
• 1.3.29
• 1.3.30
• 1.3.31
• 1.3.32
• 1.3.33
• 1.3.34
• 1.3.35
• 1.3.36
• 1.3.37
• 1.3.38
• 1.3.39
• 1.3.40
• 1.3.41
• 1.3.42
• 1.3.43
• 1.3.44
• 1.3.45

License

• open-source

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