{"id":"CVE-2018-16645","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-16645","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:16:01.769Z","title":"There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.","description":"There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.","published":"2018-09-06T22:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:44:37.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["imagemagick/imagemagick","canonical/ubuntu linux","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.03209,"percentile":0.88104,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ecb31dbad39ccdc65868d5d2a37f0f0521250832","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1268","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ecb31dbad39ccdc65868d5d2a37f0f0521250832","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1268","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00002.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3785-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4316","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16645","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}