CVE-2018-20189

MEDIUM

GraphicsMagick 1.3.31 - Denial of Service via Crafted DIB File

Title source: llm

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.31, the ReadDIBImage function of coders/dib.c has a vulnerability allowing a crash and denial of service via a dib file that is crafted to appear with direct pixel values and also colormapping (which is not available beyond 8-bits/sample), and therefore lacks indexes initialization.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4640

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106227

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/585/

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/648e2b406589

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00018.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4207-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0228

EPSS Percentile 81.0%

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-20

Status published

Products (2)

debian/debian_linux 8.0

graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick 1.3.31

Published Dec 17, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026