Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package imagemagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-IMAGEMAGICK-628473
  • published20 Mar 2017
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

CVE-2014-9844  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick 6.8.9.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted image file.