The ReadGIFImage function in coders/gif.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.8-8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory…

Description

The ReadGIFImage function in coders/gif.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.8-8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted comment in a GIF image.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.7% · top 8.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• USN-1949-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1218248 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23921 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721273 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 54671 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 54581 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-2750 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2013-4298](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2013-4298.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2013-4298)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 16:38 UTC.