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CVE-2018-18544

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-10-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

There is a memory leak in the function WriteMSLImage of coders/msl.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-13 Q16, and the function ProcessMSLScript of coders/msl.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.31.

Affected products

• GraphicsMagick: before 1.3.31 — fixed in 1.3.31
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-13-q16
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GraphicsMagick 1.3.31. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/file/233618f8fe82/ChangeLog
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00034.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1360
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/
• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/file/233618f8fe82/ChangeLog
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00034.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1360
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/

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