CVE-2016-7449 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7449?

CVE-2016-7449 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TIFFGetField function in coders/tiff.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a file containing an "unterminated" string.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7449?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7449?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-7449 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7449, GHSA-cx4c-9mmq-jqq5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7449.