CVE-2017-18211 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2017-18211?

CVE-2017-18211 is a critical vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 1 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7, a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function saveBinaryCLProgram in magick/opencl.c because a program-lookup result is not checked, related to CacheOpenCLKernel.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18211?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18211?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-18211 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18211 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18211, GHSA-j3r9-8p32-fxx6, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18211.