CVE-2013-4298

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ReadGIFImage function in coders/gif.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.8-8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted comment in a GIF image.

Affected products

ImageMagick: through 6.7.8-7; 6.7.8-0, 6.7.8-1, 6.7.8-2, 6.7.8-3, 6.7.8-4, 6.7.8-5 (+1)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721273
http://secunia.com/advisories/54581
http://secunia.com/advisories/54671
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2750
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23921
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1949-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1218248
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721273
http://secunia.com/advisories/54581
http://secunia.com/advisories/54671
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2750

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