CVE-2018-20184

MEDIUM

GraphicsMagick 1.4 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20181209 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the WriteTGAImage function of tga.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file, because the number of rows or columns can exceed the pixel-dimension restrictions of the TGA specification.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106229
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/15d1b5fd003b
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00018.html
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/583/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4207-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4640

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0231
EPSS Percentile 81.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick 1.4
Published Dec 17, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026