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CVE-2016-7539

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: through 6.9.9-3

References

• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93232
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c
• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93232
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c

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