High severity · published Jul 25, 2017
CVE-2016-7539
Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors
7.5
CVSS
4.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/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)4.9% · 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
through 6.9.9-3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7539
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7539
Patch
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93232
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c
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