CVE-2018-16323
CVSS v3
6.5
MEDIUM
EPSS Score
49.3 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Affected and fixed versions
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Vendor advisories
ImageMagick: Information leak in ReadXBMImage in coders/xbm.c
ImageMagick.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 · ImageMagick as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · ImageMagick-c++ as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Description
ReadXBMImage in coders/xbm.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.8-9 leaves data uninitialized when processing an XBM file that has a negative pixel value. If the affected code is used as a library loaded into a process that includes sensitive information, that information sometimes can be leaked via the image data.
Technical details
- Published
- 2018-09-01
- Exploit-DB
- EDB-45890
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