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CVE-2019-9956

imagemagick: stack-based buffer overflow in function PopHexPixel in coders/ps.c

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · March 22, 2019

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-35 Q16, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function PopHexPixel of coders/ps.c, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or code execution via a crafted image file.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of ImageMagick as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

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 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow