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Plain-English summary
CVE-2018-10805 is a reported memory leak in ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 when reading YCBCR image data. Business impact is most likely service degradation or resource exhaustion where ImageMagick processes images. The source bundle does not provide CVSS, exploit evidence, or complete affected product data.
Executive priority
Treat this as a targeted maintenance and exposure review item, not an emergency, unless ImageMagick handles untrusted images in production. Severity is unknown in the provided sources, so prioritize based on asset exposure and vendor applicability.
Technical view
The issue is described as a memory leak in ReadYCBCRImage in coders/ycbcr.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-28. Available metadata does not include CWE, CVSS, CPEs, exploit status, or detailed remediation text. Ubuntu issued USN-3681-1 referencing the issue.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most plausible on systems running ImageMagick 7.0.7-28 or distribution builds covered by Ubuntu USN-3681-1. Internet-facing upload, thumbnailing, document conversion, or media-processing services would be higher concern. The bundle does not identify broader affected versions.
Exploitation context
No active exploitation is supported by the provided sources, and the CVE is not listed as KEV. The described bug is a memory leak, so operational risk is likely resource consumption during image parsing rather than direct code execution, based only on the provided description.
Researcher notes
The public metadata is sparse: one affected version, function location, GitHub issue reference, and Ubuntu advisory reference. Do not infer additional versions, exploitability, or fixes without reading vendor materials. KEV is false in the supplied bundle.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory ImageMagick deployments and identify version 7.0.7-28 or Ubuntu packages covered by USN-3681-1.
- Review ImageMagick issue 1054 and Ubuntu USN-3681-1 for vendor-approved fixes.
- Apply distribution or upstream updates only as directed by vendor guidance.
- Prioritize services that process untrusted or user-uploaded images.
- Monitor image-processing workers for abnormal memory growth or crashes.
Validation and detection
- Confirm installed ImageMagick versions against the CVE record and vendor advisory scope.
- Review application paths that invoke ImageMagick for YCBCR or general image parsing.
- Check whether Ubuntu USN-3681-1 applies to managed hosts or container base images.
- Verify vendor updates are deployed in staging before production rollout.
- Review logs and monitoring for memory exhaustion in image-processing services.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1054CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- USN-3681-1CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
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