The ReadHDRImage function in coders/hdr.c in ImageMagick 6.x and 7.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop)…

Description

The ReadHDRImage function in coders/hdr.c in ImageMagick 6.x and 7.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted HDR file.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-835 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-835 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• [oss-security] 20150226 Requesting CVE for ImageMagick DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20160606 Re: Requesting CVE for ImageMagick DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195260 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/97aa7d7cfd2027f6ba7ce42caf8b798541b9cdc6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17846 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26929 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17845 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 08:29 UTC.