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medium 6.5

CVE-2018-17965 json

ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 has a memory leak vulnerability in WriteSGIImage in coders/sgi.c.

published 2018-10-03 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-9705

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 has a memory leak vulnerability in WriteSGIImage in coders/sgi.c.

Patch / fix

  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17965

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.14
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17965

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 6.4.3.6-78.74.1
  • GraphicsMagick Studio Onsite 1.3, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.2.5-78.72.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +2 more 6.8.8.1-71.82.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3348-1SUSE-SU-2018:3269-1SUSE-SU-2018:3191-1

  • imagemagick6 Alpine 3.16, Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14 +4 more 6.9.10.37-r0
  • imagemagick6 Alpine 3.9, Alpine 3.8, Alpine 3.7 6.9.10.39-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-17965

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-17965 updated cvss 3.3

ImageMagick: memory leak in WriteSGIImage in coders/sgi.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ImageMagick Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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