{"id":"CVE-2016-8684","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-8684","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:52:42.864Z","title":"The MagickMalloc function in magick/memory.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure and a \"file truncation error for corrupt file.\"","description":"The MagickMalloc function in magick/memory.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure and a \"file truncation error for corrupt file.\"","published":"2017-02-15T19:59:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:54:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick","opensuse/opensuse","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.02233,"percentile":0.82684,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.03286,"percentile":0.87927},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.02233,"percentile":0.8202}]},"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 (2.23%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/c53725cb5449","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00094.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/15","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93779","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/15/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickmalloc-memory-c/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385583","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/c53725cb5449","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory","US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00094.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/15","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93779","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/15/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickmalloc-memory-c/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385583","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8684","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."}