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CVE-2017-18254

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteGIFImage in coders/gif.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/808
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/808
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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