High severity · published Jun 4, 2016
CVE-2016-4562
The DrawDashPolygon function in MagickCore/draw.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and 7.x before 7.0.1-2 mishandles calculations of certain vertices integer data, which allows…
8.8
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The DrawDashPolygon function in MagickCore/draw.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and 7.x before 7.0.1-2 mishandles calculations of certain vertices integer data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
through 6.9.3-0; 7.0.0-0; 7.0.1-0; 7.0.1-1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4562
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4562
www.imagemagick.org
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
www.oracle.com
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/726812fa2fa7ce16bcf58f6e115f65427a1c0950
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