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CVE-2015-8959

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

coders/dds.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted DDS file.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: through 6.9.0-3

References

• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7
• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110

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