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CVE-2018-12599

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-3 Q16, ReadBMPImage and WriteBMPImage in coders/bmp.c allow attackers to cause an out of bounds write via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-3

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1177
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3711-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4245
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1177
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3711-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4245

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