What is CVE-2016-10046?

CVE-2016-10046 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-10046?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-10046

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DrawImage function in magick/draw.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.5-5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted image file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-03-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/989f9f88ea6db09b99d25586e912c921c0da8… (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95183 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10046?: CVE-2016-10046 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-10046?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.