CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9559

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 01, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted image.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ImagemagickImagemagick*6.9.6-5 (excluding)
ImagemagickImagemagick7.0.0-0 (including)7.0.3-7 (excluding)
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
ImagemagickUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
ImagemagickUbuntuprecise*
ImagemagickUbuntutrusty*
ImagemagickUbuntutrusty/esm*
ImagemagickUbuntuupstream*
ImagemagickUbuntuxenial*
ImagemagickUbuntuyakkety*

Potential Mitigations

References