CVE-2018-20185

MEDIUM

GraphicsMagick <1.4 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20181209 Q8 on 32-bit platforms, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the ReadBMPImage function of bmp.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp image file. This only affects GraphicsMagick installations with customized BMP limits.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/648e3977a293
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/582/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106229
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00018.html
Third Party 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 5.3
EPSS 0.0085
EPSS Percentile 74.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick 1.4 2018-12-09
Published Dec 17, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026