CVE-2016-5688 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting ImageMagick versions prior to 6.9.4-4 and 7.0.1-5, as well as Oracle Solaris. It involves a heap-based buffer overflow or invalid write operations within the WPG parser, triggered by specially crafted image files when a memory limit is set. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (High), this vulnerability allows remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with high complexity, requiring no user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 6.9.4-3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.1-0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.1-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.1-2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:7.0.1-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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