CVE-2015-8903

medium

Description

The ReadVICARImage function in coders/vicar.c in ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.0-5 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted VICAR file.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8759

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195271

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26933

http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17856

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-27

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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