CVE-2016-9559

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

3.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 88.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.5 (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:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Low. 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

2017-03-01 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:50Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-11-22

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

f62f8898b773fd9de2f9ec1ba49125f46ac534c29e36692ae086aac6160138d9

• www.securityfocus.com94489http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94489vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161122 Re: imagemagick: null pointer must never be null (tiff.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/23/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/b61d35eaccc0a7ddeff8a1c3abfcd0a43ccf210bx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161119 imagemagick: null pointer must never be null (tiff.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/19/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• github.comhttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/298x_refsource_CONFIRM
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/19/imagemagick-null-pointer-must-never-be-null-tiff-c/x_refsource_MISC
• www.debian.orgDSA-3726http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3726vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN