CVE-2018-16645

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2018-16645 · Published 06/09/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-16645 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting imagemagick (imagemagick).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
imagemagick imagemagick	`= 7.0.8-11`	No fix yet

Description

There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

References

ImageMagick/ImageMagick commit ecb31db · Patch
ImageMagick/ImageMagick · Issue Tracking
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html · Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1 · Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1
debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

imagemagick

= 7.0.8-11

No fix yet

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