CVE-2018-16645: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.8-11 only

Published 2018-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.