CVE-2016-8866

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

4.80% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 91.6% 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

2016-10-21

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

e57bc0a2d9546acdc1c53215b620525a85802d5cac40b8e8522596a1b68bca7a

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161021 Re: imagemagick: memory allocation failure in AcquireMagickMemory (memory.c) (incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8862)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/21/5mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388816x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:3238http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00141.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2017:0023http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-01/msg00006.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• 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/2016/10/20/imagemagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-acquiremagickmemory-memory-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2016-8862/x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/271x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:3233http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00085.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE