CVE-2019-9956

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-35 Q16, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function PopHexPixel of coders/ps.c, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or code execution via a crafted image file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 7.0.8.35-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1
sid Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1
forky Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1
bullseye Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1
bookworm Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1

References

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

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