CVE-2018-16328

Publication date 1 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-8, a NULL pointer dereference exists in the CheckEventLogging function in MagickCore/log.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

introduced in 6.x by 403c002c5c7ff120c09683d6f263b66d2b83c9b4 (6.9.9-22)

Patch details

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Package Patch details
imagemagick

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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