High severity · published Jan 18, 2017
CVE-2016-6823
Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted height and width values, which triggers…
7.5
CVSS
5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted height and width values, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.0% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
before 6.9.10-50; 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.2-10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6823
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6823
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/26/3
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93158
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834504
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4cc6ec8a4197d4c008577127736bf7985d632323
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