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CVE-2018-16750

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-29 and earlier, a memory leak in the formatIPTCfromBuffer function in coders/meta.c was found.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.9-42; from 7.0.0-0 through 7.0.7-29 — fixed in 6.9.9-42

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.9-42. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108492
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1118
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108492
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1118
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/

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