CVE-2016-7539 (GCVE-0-2016-7539)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-25 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:04
VLAI
Summary
Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-07-31 00:00
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