CVE-2014-9853
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Memory leak in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted rle file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 8:6.8.9.9-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 8:6.8.9.9-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 8:6.8.9.9-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 8:6.8.9.9-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 8:6.8.9.9-4 |
| ubuntu | 12.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 16.10 | affected | |
| suse | 42.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
| suse | 12 | affected | |
| suse | 11 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| imagemagick | imagemagick | {"endExcluding":"6.9.4-0"} | 6.9.4-0 |
| suse | linux_enterprise_debuginfo | 11 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9853.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00037.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00028.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3131-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343513
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9853
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.