CVE-2018-16645

medium

Description

There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ecb31dbad39ccdc65868d5d2a37f0f0521250832

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1268

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-09-06

Updated: 2019-10-03

Type: CWE-770

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM