CVE-2016-10049 — 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-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow8 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 40.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedMar 23
Latest updateNov 6

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:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

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: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5735-29gv-gr8x: Buffer overflow in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-10049: Buffer overflow in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle↗2017-03-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
ImageMagick: Buffer overflow when reading corrupt RLE files↗2016-05-17
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Debian
CVE-2016-10049: imagemagick - Buffer overflow in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick befo...↗2016
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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-2016-10049 ImageMagick: Buffer overflow when reading corrupt RLE files↗2017-01-05
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Bugzilla
ImageMagick: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-01-05
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