CVE-2016-9559

Publication date 1 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted image.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.6

Notes

mdeslaur

this is 0167-Fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-TIFF-file-handling.patch

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 1c795ce Upstream: b61d35e

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9559