CVE-2016-5842: ImageMagick

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MagickCore/property.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.2-1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via vectors involving the q variable, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick: before 6.9.4-10 (fixed in 6.9.4-10); from 7.0.0-0, before 7.0.2-1 (fixed in 7.0.2-1)
  • Oracle Solaris: version 10 only; version 11.3 only

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