CVE-2016-8866

NameCVE-2016-8866
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-756-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
imagemagick (PTS)bullseye8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u4fixed
bullseye (security)8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u3fixed
bookworm8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie8:6.9.13.12+dfsg1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
imagemagicksourcewheezy8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u10DLA-756-1
imagemagicksource(unstable)(not affected)

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 .

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