CVE-2018-7639

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in CImg v.220. A heap-based buffer over-read in load_bmp in CImg.h occurs when loading a crafted bmp image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-7588. This is in a "16 bits colors" case, aka case 16.

Affected products

Cimg: .220

References

https://github.com/dtschump/CImg/issues/185
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00033.html
https://github.com/dtschump/CImg/issues/185
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00033.html

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