CVE-2017-18250

Publication date 27 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function LogOpenCLBuildFailure in MagickCore/opencl.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

check if 7.x only

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 2f368e7

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18250