Information disclosure in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-16323

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Information disclosure in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-16323

Published: September 1, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31219
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16323
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

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.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16323

Install update from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - update to 7.0.8-9

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