CVE-2016-7539 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Imagemagick

CWE-399CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption8 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.9%
top 13.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMay 17

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:HExploitability: 3.9 | 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.imagemagick.org ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: bugs.debian.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f46j-2g68-jrmx: Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-7539: Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified↗2017-07-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2016-11-21
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: potential DOS by not releasing memory↗2016-01-07
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Debian
CVE-2016-7539: imagemagick - Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attack...↗2016
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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-2016-7539 ImageMagick: potential DOS by not releasing memory↗2016-09-23
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