High
Security advisory
Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7539
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.
osv:CVE-2016-7539
Complete source record
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