CVE-2018-16640

Publication date 6 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.8-5 has a memory leak vulnerability in the function ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.13
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 76efa96 Upstream: 3449a06

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3785-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
4 October 2018

Other references