What is CVE-2016-10059?

CVE-2016-10059 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-03-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-10059?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-10059

Buffer overflow in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (81.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/95206 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00028.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/58cf5bf4fade82e3b510e8f3463a967278a3e… (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10059?: CVE-2016-10059 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-03-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-10059?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.