vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-6405: ImageMagick: Memory leak in coders/dcm.c:ReadDCMImage can allow for denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In the ReadDCMImage function in coders/dcm.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.7-23, each redmap, greenmap, and bluemap variable can be overwritten by a new pointer. The previous pointer is lost, which leads to a memory leak. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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