CVE-2016-6823 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Imagemagick

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or WraparoundCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 23.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedJan 18
Latest updateNov 6

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:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2 (bookworm)
▶NVDimagemagick/imagemagick7.0.0-0 — 7.0.2-10+1
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2+3

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: bugs.debian.org ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m5cf-9j9f-j4xc: Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-6823: Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7↗2017-01-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2016-11-21
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: Integer overflow within BMP encoder/writer↗2016-09-26
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Debian
CVE-2016-6823: imagemagick - Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-10 allows remote a...↗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-2016-6823 ImageMagick: Integer overflow within BMP encoder/writer↗2016-09-27
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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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