High severity · published Mar 23, 2017
CVE-2016-10049
Buffer overflow in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have other…
7.8
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Buffer overflow in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted RLE file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
through 6.9.4-3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10049
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10049
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95180
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410452
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/13db820f5e24cd993ee554e99377fea02a904e18
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3e9165285eda6e1bb71172031d3048b51bb443a4
Third Party Advisory
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29710
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