CVE-2015-8808

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The DecodeImage function in coders/gif.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via a crafted GIF file.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22
GraphicsMagick: through 1.3.17
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp4
SUSE Studio onsite: 1.3

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177834.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00032.html
http://marc.info/?l=graphicsmagick-commit&m=142283721604323&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83058
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177834.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00032.html
http://marc.info/?l=graphicsmagick-commit&m=142283721604323&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/06/1

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