CVE-2018-5685: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick: version 1.3.27 only

Published 2018-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.