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CVE-2018-8804 (GCVE-0-2018-8804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-20 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 07:02
VLAI
Summary
WriteEPTImage in coders/ept.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-25 Q16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (MagickCore/memory.c double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1025 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2018-03-19 00:00
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