CVE-2016-5687: ImageMagick

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VerticalFilter function in the DDS coder in ImageMagick before 6.9.4-3 and 7.x before 7.0.1-4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted DDS file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• ImageMagick ImageMagick: up to and including 6.9.4-2; version 7.0.1-0 only; version 7.0.1-1 only; version 7.0.1-2 only; version 7.0.1-3 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only

Published 2016-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.