CVE-2016-5687

Publication date 24 June 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The VerticalFilter function in the DDS coder in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-3 and 7.x before 7.0.1-4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted DDS file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.2
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.5

Notes

seth-arnold

The "fix" turns an error into a warning. I suspect it's broken.

mdeslaur

This is 0129-Raise-warning-instead-of-error-because-we-return-the.patch, 0128-Removed-incorrect-EOF-check.patch

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: c023c43 Upstream: 0b7172f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3131-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
21 November 2016