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CVE-2017-18209

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the GetOpenCLCachedFilesDirectory function in magick/opencl.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7, a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability occurs because a memory allocation result is not checked, related to GetOpenCLCacheDirectory.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-0, 7.0.7-1, 7.0.7-2, 7.0.7-3, 7.0.7-4, 7.0.7-5 (+20)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103218
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/790
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103218
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/790
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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