Out-of-bounds Read Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.5% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-520914
- published 13 Dec 2016
- disclosed 13 Dec 2016
Introduced: 13 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-5842 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
imagemagick
to version 8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick
package and not the imagemagick
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
MagickCore/property.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via vectors involving the q variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5842
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5842
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-21
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d8ab7f046587f2e9f734b687ba7e6e10147c294b
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commits/7.0.2-1
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/25/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91394
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5842