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CVE-2015-8959

medium

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

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8815

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-20

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.016