CVE-2017-18254: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteGIFImage in coders/gif.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.7 only

Published 2018-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.