CVE-2015-8959

Publication date 25 August 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

coders/dds.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.0-4 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted DDS file.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
imagemagick	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.5

Notes

mdeslaur

This is 0126-Fix-a-DOS-for-DDS-file.patch, 0127-Fix-a-DOS-for-DDS-file.patch.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
imagemagick	Upstream: 3ab0167 Upstream: 9b428b7

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3131-1
ImageMagick vulnerabilities
21 November 2016

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