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CVE-2018-5685

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.27

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00018.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321
• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00018.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

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