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CVE-2018-16640

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.8-5 has a memory leak vulnerability in the function ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-5

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/76efa969342568841ecf320b5a041685a6d24e0b
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1201
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/76efa969342568841ecf320b5a041685a6d24e0b
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1201
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/

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