Medium
Security advisory
coders/meta.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7524
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
coders/meta.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.
osv:CVE-2016-7524
Complete source record
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