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imagemagick — security advisory
There is a missing check for length in the functions ReadDCMImage of coders/dcm.c and ReadPICTImage of coders/pict.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image.
- Products
- imagemagick
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16644
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
There is a missing check for length in the functions ReadDCMImage of coders/dcm.c and ReadPICTImage of coders/pict.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16644
imagemagick
Fixed versions: 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
imagemagick
Fixed versions: 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
imagemagick
Fixed versions: 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 420117,
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