CVE-2018-16323

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

ReadXBMImage in coders/xbm.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.8-9 leaves data uninitialized when processing an XBM file that has a negative pixel value. If the affected code is used as a library loaded into a process that includes sensitive information, that information sometimes can be leaked via the image data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-45890 local multiple
ttffdd · 2018-11-19

ImageMagick - Memory Leak

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.