CVE-2015-8898

Published: 31 December 2015

The WriteImages function in magick/constitute.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.2-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted image file.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
imagemagick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (8:6.8.9.9-7)




	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist (trusty was released [8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.2])
	Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin)	Released (8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.5)
	Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/5b4bebaa91849c592a8448bc353ab25a54ff8c44

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	This is 0071-Prevent-null-pointer-access-in-magick-constitute.c.patch

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