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CVE-2019-16708

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.8-35 has a memory leak in magick/xwindow.c, related to XCreateImage.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 10.0
• ImageMagick: 7.0.8-35
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00042.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1531
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00042.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1531
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712

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