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CVE-2018-5248

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-17 Q16, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in coders/sixel.c in the ReadSIXELImage function, related to the sixel_decode function.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-17

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102431
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/927
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4204
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4245
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102431
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/927
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4204
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4245

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