CVE-2016-8677

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The AcquireQuantumPixels function in MagickCore/quantum.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3-1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
ImageMagick: before 6.9.5-10; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.3-1 — fixed in 6.9.5-10, 7.0.3-1
Opensuse: 13.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.5-10, 7.0.3-1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00107.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3726
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93598
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/07/imagemagick-memory-allocate-failure-in-acquirequantumpixels-quantum-c/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385698
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/6e48aa92ff4e6e95424300ecd52a9ea453c19c60
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/268
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00107.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3726
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93598

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