coders/dds.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted DDS…

Description

coders/dds.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted DDS file.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 93230 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20160922 Re: CVE Requests: Various ImageMagick issues (as reported in the Debian BTS) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7 (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 08:36 UTC.