CVE-2016-7515
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
The ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors related to the number of pixels.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed 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
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | imagemagick | {"endExcluding":"6.9.4-0"} | 6.9.4-0 |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93120
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1533445
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378741
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2ad6d33493750a28a5a655d319a8e0b16c392de1
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/82
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7515.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7515
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.