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CVE-2018-16329

Publication date 1 September 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-8, a NULL pointer dereference exists in the GetMagickProperty function in MagickCore/property.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

looks like image_info NULL checks are missing from GetMagickPropertyLetter() function. See also https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/db2a1d6aaff3a83a74b37731405424c95f0c873a unfixed in imagemagick6 as of 2018-10-02

mdeslaur

upstream states that this issue does not affect IM6

Patch details

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Package Patch details
imagemagick

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H