CVE-2016-10063

Publication date 2 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer overflow in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.5-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted file, related to extend validity.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.6

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0159-Check-validity-of-extend-during-TIFF-file-reading.patch

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 2bb6941

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H