CVE-2016-6823

Publication date 25 August 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Integer overflow in the BMP coder in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted height and width values, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.5

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0148-Prevent-buffer-overflow-in-BMP-coder.patch

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 4cc6ec8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H