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CVE-2015-8900

Date: February 27, 2017

The ReadHDRImage function in coders/hdr.c in ImageMagick 6.x and 7.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted HDR file.

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (12)

Url: http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17846

Url: http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17845

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8900

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/06/2

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195260

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8900

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/26/13

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8900

Url: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/97aa7d7cfd2027f6ba7ce42caf8b798541b9cdc6

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8900

Url: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26929

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-8900

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CWE-835

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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