CVE-2018-16645Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Imagemagick

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 6
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1+3
Ubuntuimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-8c76-7g9q-8v4r: There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp2022-05-13
OSV
imagemagick vulnerabilities2018-10-04
OSV
CVE-2018-16645: There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp2018-09-06

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities2019-06-25
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities2018-10-04
Red Hat
ImageMagick: Out-of-memory ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of codes/dib.c2018-08-27
Debian
CVE-2018-16645: imagemagick - There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of c...2018

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16645 ImageMagick: Out-of-memory ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of codes/dib.c [fedora-all]2018-09-07
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16645 ImageMagick: Out-of-memory ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of codes/dib.c2018-09-07