CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9559

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 01, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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

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

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Imagemagick Imagemagick * 6.9.6-5 (excluding)
Imagemagick Imagemagick 7.0.0-0 (including) 7.0.3-7 (excluding)
Imagemagick Ubuntu precise *
Imagemagick Ubuntu trusty *
Imagemagick Ubuntu upstream *
Imagemagick Ubuntu xenial *
Imagemagick Ubuntu yakkety *

Potential Mitigations

References