CVE-2018-8960: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 does not properly restrict memory allocation, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.7-26 only

Published 2018-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.