CVE-2018-16329

Publication date 1 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-8, a NULL pointer dereference exists in the GetMagickProperty function in MagickCore/property.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

looks like image_info NULL checks are missing from GetMagickPropertyLetter() function. See also https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/db2a1d6aaff3a83a74b37731405424c95f0c873a unfixed in imagemagick6 as of 2018-10-02

mdeslaur

upstream states that this issue does not affect IM6

Patch details

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Package Patch details
imagemagick

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

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

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