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CVE-2016-8862
The AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/memory.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3.3 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/memory.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3.3 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- [oss-security] 20161020 imagemagick: memory allocation failure in AcquireMagickMemory (memory.c) (incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8862) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/17/imagemagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-acquiremagickmemory-memory-c/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387135 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/271 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93794 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161020 Re: imagemagick: memory allocation failure in AcquireMagickMemory (memory.c) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-9687 (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)
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