CVE-2016-8862

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

4.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 90.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

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 02:35Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-10-20

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

15dd0612fef6515f3aae863fd1621ee1fc6d97085d8d066c0b1f230d5d7ee478

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161020 imagemagick: memory allocation failure in AcquireMagickMemory (memory.c) (incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8862)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/20/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/17/imagemagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-acquiremagickmemory-memory-c/x_refsource_MISC
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387135x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/271x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com93794http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93794vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161020 Re: imagemagick: memory allocation failure in AcquireMagickMemory (memory.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/20/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.debian.orgDSA-3726http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3726vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN