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CVE-2014-9853

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted rle file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.4-0 — fixed in 6.9.4-0
• Novell Leap: 42.2
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp4, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12-sp1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.4-0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00037.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00028.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/02/13
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3131-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343513
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html

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