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CVE-2018-16644

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% 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-119

Description

There is a missing check for length in the functions ReadDCMImage of coders/dcm.c and ReadPICTImage of coders/pict.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-11

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00006.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/16916c8979c32765c542e216b31cee2671b7afe7
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/afa878a689870c28b6994ecf3bb8dbfb2b76d135
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1269
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00006.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/16916c8979c32765c542e216b31cee2671b7afe7
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/afa878a689870c28b6994ecf3bb8dbfb2b76d135
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1269

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