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CVE-2016-8677

high

Description

The AcquireQuantumPixels function in MagickCore/quantum.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3-1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/268

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/6e48aa92ff4e6e95424300ecd52a9ea453c19c60

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/07/imagemagick-memory-allocate-failure-in-acquirequantumpixels-quantum-c/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93598

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3726

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00107.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385698

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-02-15

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00273