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CVE-2016-9830

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9830 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GraphicsMagick versions up to 1.3.25, affecting products like Debian and openSUSE. This flaw, residing in the MagickRealloc function, allows remote attackers to crash the application by processing specially crafted JPEG images with large dimensions. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, ExploitDB, Nuclei), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat profile.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:graphicsmagick:graphicsmagick:1.3.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 5,757 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

hg.code.sf.net / p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/38d0f281e8c8
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00141.html
Third Party Advisory
blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2016/12/01/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c
PatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3746
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94625
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry