CVE-2018-18024 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-18024?

CVE-2018-18024 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 7 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-13 Q16, there is an infinite loop in the ReadBMPImage function of the coders/bmp.c file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-18024?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2018-18024?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-18024 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18024 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick

• CVE-2019-19952 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16328 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16329 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-18210 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14138 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.8

All Imagemagick Imagemagick vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18024, GHSA-q8c2-fv73-qc5x, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18024.