CVE-2015-8959

MEDIUM

Imagemagick < 6.9.0-3 - Resource Management Error

Title source: rule

Description

coders/dds.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted DDS file.

References (7)

[Exploit, Vendor Advisory] http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0173

EPSS Percentile 82.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Affected Products (2)

imagemagick/imagemagick < 6.9.0-3

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Apr 20, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026