VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-6823

Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted height and width values, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 5.04%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.04%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 5.04% probability · 92th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-190
Affected: imagemagick/imagemagick
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 5.0% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/26/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93158Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834504Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4cc6ec8a4197d4c008577127736bf7985d632323Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/26/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93158Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834504Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4cc6ec8a4197d4c008577127736bf7985d632323Patch, Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.