CVE-2016-7539

high

Description

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

References

Advisories
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https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93232

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

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-25

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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