What is CVE-2018-18544?

CVE-2018-18544 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-21.

How severe is CVE-2018-18544?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Graphicsmagick

CVE-2018-18544

There is a memory leak in the function WriteMSLImage of coders/msl.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-13 Q16, and the function ProcessMSLScript of coders/msl.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.31.

EPSS: 0.020 (78.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Graphicsmagick
Imagemagick — versions 7.0.8-13
Opensuse Leap — versions 15.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18544?: CVE-2018-18544 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Graphicsmagick, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-21.
How severe is CVE-2018-18544?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.