CVE-2016-7448

high
Published 2017-02-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The Utah RLE reader in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or large memory allocations) via vectors involving the header information and the file size.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.25-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.25-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.25-1
debian debiansidfixed1.3.25-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.25-1
debian debian8.0affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
graphicsmagickgraphicsmagick{"endIncluding":"1.3.24"}

References

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.