CVE-2016-7540

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2016-7540 · Published 20/04/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-7540 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting imagemagick (imagemagick).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.8%, higher than 86.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
imagemagick imagemagick	`≤ 6.9.4-9`	No fix yet

Description

coders/rgf.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) by converting an image to rgf format.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/93228 · Third Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1594060 · Issue Tracking
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
ImageMagick/ImageMagick commit a0108a8 · Patch
ImageMagick/ImageMagick#223 · Issue Tracking

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

imagemagick

≤ 6.9.4-9

No fix yet

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