What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7524

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

coders/meta.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: before 6.9.4-0 — fixed in 6.9.4-0

How to fix

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

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1537422
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378762
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/97c9f438a9b3454d085895f4d1f66389fd22a0fb
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f8c318d462270b03e77f082e2a3a32867cacd3c6
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/96
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1537422
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378762
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/97c9f438a9b3454d085895f4d1f66389fd22a0fb
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f8c318d462270b03e77f082e2a3a32867cacd3c6
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/96

Get alerted when CVE-2016-7524 or the next vulnerability affects your stack