CVE-2016-8683

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ReadPCXImage function in coders/pcx.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure and a "file truncation error for corrupt file."

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
GraphicsMagick: 1.3.25
Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/b9edafd479b9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00094.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93600
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/15/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-readpcximage-pcx-c/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385583
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/b9edafd479b9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00094.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93600

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