What is CVE-2014-9829?

CVE-2014-9829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-05.

How severe is CVE-2014-9829?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2014-9829

coders/sun.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) via a crafted sun file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-04-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 77.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit/ (Patch)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-9829?: CVE-2014-9829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-04-05.
How severe is CVE-2014-9829?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.