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ImageMagick: memory leak in WritePCXImage in coders/pcx.c

Published Oct 5, 2018

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 has a memory leak vulnerability in WritePCXImage in coders/pcx.c.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of ImageMagick as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Low, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Metrics

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-772

References (7)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Oct 5, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Oct 5, 2018
Link CVE-2018-18016
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-18016
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Mar 24, 2018
Links CVE-2018-18016 - Bugzilla