CVE-2015-8903

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The ReadVICARImage function in coders/vicar.c in ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.0-5 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted VICAR file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-835

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17856Broken Link
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26933Exploit, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195271Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17856Broken Link
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26933Exploit, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195271Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 27, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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