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CVE-2018-18544 (GCVE-0-2018-18544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-21 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:15
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-10-20 00:00
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