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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-10144 json

coders/ipl.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecific impact by leveraging a missing malloc check.

published 2017-03-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1333

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.0%
EPSS 5.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

coders/ipl.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to have unspecific impact by leveraging a missing malloc check.

Patch / fix

  • imagemagick imagemagick 6.9.7-1
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10144

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.5
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10144

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 6.4.3.6-7.65.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +8 more 6.8.8.1-59.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0586-1SUSE-SU-2017:0529-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10144 updated cvss 3.3

ImageMagick: ipl file missing malloc check

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ImageMagick Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ImageMagick
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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