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CVE-2018-16642

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% 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-787

Description

The function InsertRow in coders/cut.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-37 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file due to an out-of-bounds write.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-37

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc4ac341f29fa368da6ef01c207deaf8c61f6a2e
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1162
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc4ac341f29fa368da6ef01c207deaf8c61f6a2e
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1162
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316

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