Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package imagemagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-IMAGEMAGICK-614495
  • published23 Jul 2018
  • disclosed23 Jul 2018

Introduced: 23 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14551  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The ReadMATImageV4 function in coders/mat.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-7 uses an uninitialized variable, leading to memory corruption.