Out-of-bounds Read Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.49% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-IMAGEMAGICK-402001
  • published5 Jan 2018
  • disclosed5 Jan 2018

Introduced: 5 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5248  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable imagemagick to version 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-17 Q16, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in coders/sixel.c in the ReadSIXELImage function, related to the sixel_decode function.