UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5248

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5248

    Published: 5 Jan 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-5248
    Aliases:
    USN-3681-1

    Summary:

    Details: In ImageMagick 7.0.7-17 Q16, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in coders/sixel.c in the ReadSIXELImage function, related to the sixel_decode function.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5248, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3681-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5248

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: imagemagick

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/imagemagick@8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11

    Affected versions

    8:6.8.9.9-5ubuntu2
    8:6.8.9.9-6
    8:6.8.9.9-6build1
    8:6.8.9.9-7
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu1
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu2
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu3
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu4
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.2
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.4
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.5
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.6
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.8
    8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.9

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