vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-4564: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 4, 2016
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The DrawImage function in MagickCore/draw.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and 7.x before 7.0.1-2 makes an incorrect function call in attempting to locate the next token, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-imagemagick
Title
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