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CVE-2016-10049

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted RLE file.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: through 6.9.4-3

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95180
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410452
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/13db820f5e24cd993ee554e99377fea02a904e18
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3e9165285eda6e1bb71172031d3048b51bb443a4
• https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29710
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/26/9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95180
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410452
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/13db820f5e24cd993ee554e99377fea02a904e18
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3e9165285eda6e1bb71172031d3048b51bb443a4
• https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29710

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