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CVE-2018-8804

Double Free

Published: Mar 20, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8804
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

WriteEPTImage in coders/ept.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-25 Q16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (MagickCore/memory.c double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ImagemagickImagemagick7.0.7-25q16 (including)7.0.7-25q16 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatautotrace-0:0.31.1-38.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatemacs-1:24.3-23.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatImageMagick-0:6.9.10.68-3.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatinkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7*
ImagemagickUbuntuartful*
ImagemagickUbuntubionic*
ImagemagickUbuntudevel*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
ImagemagickUbuntutrusty*
ImagemagickUbuntutrusty/esm*
ImagemagickUbuntuupstream*
ImagemagickUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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