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CVE-2016-4562

ImageMagick: Mishandled calculation of certain vertices integer data in DrawDashPolygon() function

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · June 4, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The DrawDashPolygon function in MagickCore/draw.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-0 and 7.x before 7.0.1-2 mishandles calculations of certain vertices integer data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow