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CVE-2016-5240
The DrawDashPolygon function in magick/render.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and the SVG renderer in ImageMagick allow remote attackers…
Medium5.5EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
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- mitre
Description
The DrawDashPolygon function in magick/render.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and the SVG renderer in ImageMagick allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by converting a circularly defined SVG file.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- RHSA-2016:1237 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160501 CVE request: DoS in multiple versions of GraphicsMagick (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 89348 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160602 Re: CVE request: DoS in multiple versions of GraphicsMagick (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3746 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160501 Re: CVE request: DoS in multiple versions of GraphicsMagick (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ChangeLog-2016.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=ddc999ec896c (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)
Record last updated .