VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5687

critical
Published 2016-12-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The VerticalFilter function in the DDS coder in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-3 and 7.x before 7.0.1-4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted DDS file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
sid Fixed 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
forky Fixed 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
bullseye Fixed 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
bookworm Fixed 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick{"endIncluding":"6.9.4-2"}
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-0
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-1
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-2
imagemagickimagemagick7.0.1-3

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.