CVE-2015-8959

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

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-399

Affected software

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

References

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861Exploit, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26861Exploit, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93230Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378738Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/3ab016764c7f787829d9065440d86f5609765110Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/9b428b7af688fe319320aed15f2b94281d1e37b4Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cc2a4d2ba5371d25c58763e4db2dbc1f4691c0f7Patch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 20, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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