CVE-2015-8900

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

The ReadHDRImage function in coders/hdr.c in ImageMagick 6.x and 7.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted HDR file.

Affected products

ImageMagick: from 6.0 through 6.9.3-10; from 7.0.1-0 through 7.0.5-0

References

http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17845
http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17846
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26929
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195260
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/97aa7d7cfd2027f6ba7ce42caf8b798541b9cdc6
http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17845
http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17846
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26929
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2

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