{"id":"CVE-2016-7539","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-7539","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:07:38.570Z","title":"Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.","description":"Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.","published":"2017-07-25T14:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:53:13.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@debian.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-399"],"affected":["imagemagick/imagemagick"],"epss":{"score":0.04868,"percentile":0.92,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.87%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93232","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93232","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7539","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}