| Name | CVE-2016-8866 |
| Description | The AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/memory.c in ImageMagick 7.0.3.3 before 7.0.3.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8862. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-756-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| imagemagick (PTS) | bullseye | 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 8:6.9.13.12+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| sid | 8:7.1.1.39+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
- imagemagick <not-affected> (Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8862 not applied)
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/20/imagemagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-acquiremagickmemory-memory-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2016-8862/
This is not a real problem in imagemagick but caused by the "observer" (the address sanitizer), cf.
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30908#p140255 .