CVE-2015-8957 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Imagemagick

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read9 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedApr 20
Latest updateNov 6

Description

Buffer overflow in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted SUN file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2+3

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-fx7j-h9c6-chpr: Buffer overflow in ImageMagick before 6↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-8957: Buffer overflow in ImageMagick before 6↗2017-04-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2016-11-21
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: OOB read and possible crash when handling malformed SUN files↗2015-01-05
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Debian
CVE-2015-8957: imagemagick - Buffer overflow in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to ca...↗2015
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
Specification-Guided Vulnerability Detection with Large Language Models↗2025-11-06
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9907 CVE-2015-8957 CVE-2015-8958 CVE-2015-8959 CVE-2016-6823 CVE-2016-7101 CVE-2016-7513 CVE-2016-7514 CVE-2016-7515 CVE-2016-7516 CVE-2016-7517 CVE-2016-7518 CVE-2016-7519 CVE-2016-7520 CVE-↗2016-09-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8957 ImageMagick: OOB read and possible crash when handling malformed SUN files↗2016-09-23
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