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CVE-2014-9842

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Memory leak in the ReadPSDLayers function in coders/psd.c in ImageMagick 6.8.9.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10
• ImageMagick: 6.8.8-9
• Opensuse: 13.2
• Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11.0-sp4
• Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0-sp1
• Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-sp4, 12.0-sp1
• Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4, 12.0-sp1
• Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0-sp1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00018.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13
• https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit/?h=debian-patches/6.8.9.9-4-for-upstream&id=f9ef11671c41da4cf973d0d880af1cdfbd127860
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343500
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00018.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13

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