CVE-2016-7539

HIGH

Imagemagick < 6.9.9-3 - Resource Management Error

Title source: rule

Description

Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

References (6)

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946

[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/93232

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c

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Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0291

EPSS Percentile 86.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

imagemagick/imagemagick < 6.9.9-3

Timeline

Published Jul 25, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026