CVE-2016-8683

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 78.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-02-15 19:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:27Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-10-15

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

4373cca6e15c19381f35df41d19bd144f24798f1f916379db8b3f018073b4619

• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/15/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-readpcximage-pcx-c/x_refsource_MISC
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:2641http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00094.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161015 Re: graphicsmagick: memory allocation failure in ReadPCXImage (pcx.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385583x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3746http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.securityfocus.com93600http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93600vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• hg.code.sf.nethttp://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/b9edafd479b9x_refsource_CONFIRM