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CVE-2018-16323

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—💥 Exploit

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

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Affected technologies (2)

Canonical — Ubuntu LinuxImagemagick — Imagemagick

CWEs

References

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