CVE-2015-8901 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.0-5 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted MIFF file.

Published: 2017-02-27

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-960-1	imagemagick security update
EUVD	EUVD-2015-8757	ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.0-5 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted MIFF file.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3131-1	ImageMagick vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00447.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17854
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26931
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195265
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8901
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8901

History

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Subscriptions

Imagemagick Imagemagick

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-02-27T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:22.113Z

Reserved: 2016-06-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8901

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-02-27T22:59:00.230

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2015-8901

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-02-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8901 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-835

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