FKIE_CVE-2015-8959

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-20 18:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
coders/dds.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted DDS file.
References
security@debian.orghttp://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861Exploit, Vendor Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738Issue Tracking, Patch
security@debian.orghttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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