Medium severity · published May 18, 2018
CVE-2018-11251
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-23 Q16 x86_64 2018-01-24, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadSUNImage in coders/sun.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service…
6.5
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-23 Q16 x86_64 2018-01-24, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadSUNImage in coders/sun.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash in SetGrayscaleImage in MagickCore/quantize.c) via a crafted SUN image file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
7.0.7-16 before 7.0.7-21; 7.0.7-23 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11251
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11251
Exploit
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/956
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00004.html
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
www.debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4245
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