CVE-2018-20189

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2018-20189 · Published 17/12/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-20189 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting graphicsmagick (graphicsmagick).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
graphicsmagick graphicsmagick	`= 1.3.31`	No fix yet

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.31, the ReadDIBImage function of coders/dib.c has a vulnerability allowing a crash and denial of service via a dib file that is crafted to appear with direct pixel values and also colormapping (which is not available beyond 8-bits/sample), and therefore lacks indexes initialization.

References

hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/648e2b406589 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/106227 · Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00018.html · Mailing List
sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/585 · Exploit
usn.ubuntu.com/4207-1
debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4640

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

graphicsmagick

= 1.3.31

No fix yet

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