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CVE-2018-8960

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 does not properly restrict memory allocation, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• ImageMagick: 7.0.7-26-q16

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103523
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1020
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103523
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1020
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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