What is CVE-2016-4563?

CVE-2016-4563 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-06-04.

How severe is CVE-2016-4563?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2016-4563

The TraceStrokePolygon function in MagickCore/draw.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and 7.x before 7.0.1-2 mishandles the relationship between the BezierQuantum value and certain strokes data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.026 (83.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Imagemagick — versions 7.0.0-0, 7.0.1-0, 7.0.1-1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4563?: CVE-2016-4563 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-06-04.
How severe is CVE-2016-4563?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.