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CVE-2016-8862

Published: 21 October 2016

The AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/memory.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3.3 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
the initial patch was incomplete and resulted in CVE-2016-8866
This is 0171-Lowered-max-map_length-to-prevent-an-overflow-271.patch

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
imagemagick
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.6)
trusty
Released (8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.3)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3)
yakkety
Released (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.2)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/aea6c6507f55632829e6432f8177a084a57c9fcc
upstream: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/ab2c9d6a8dd6d71b161ec9cc57a588b116b52322

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H