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CVE-2014-9844

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% 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-125

Description

The ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick 6.8.9.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted image file.

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
• SUSE Studio onsite: 1.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html
• 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/msg00010.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
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3131-1
• https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/imagemagick.git/commit/?h=debian-patches/6.8.9.9-4-for-upstream&id=36ed9419a68cb1356b1843b48cc12788179cdaee
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343502
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00002.html

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