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CVE-2018-16640

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16640 is a memory leak vulnerability in ImageMagick 7.0.8-5, specifically within the ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c, affecting ImageMagick and Canonical Ubuntu Linux distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered remotely through user interaction, leading to a high impact on availability due to resource exhaustion. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.8-5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.8-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0255 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 26,209 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: autotrace-0:0.31.1-38.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: emacs-1:24.3-23.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ImageMagick-0:6.9.10.68-3.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: inkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ImageMagick
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ImageMagick

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16640Low

ImageMagick: memory leak in ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c

Jul 6, 2018

References

github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/76efa969342568841ecf320b5a041685a6d24e0b
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1201
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3785-1
Third Party Advisory