CVE-2016-6491: ImageMagick

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the Get8BIMProperty function in MagickCore/property.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.5-4 and 7.x before 7.0.2-6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, memory leak, and crash) via a crafted image.

Affected products

• ImageMagick ImageMagick: up to and including 6.9.5-3; version 7.0.1-0 only; version 7.0.1-1 only; version 7.0.1-2 only; version 7.0.1-3 only; version 7.0.1-4 only; …
• Oracle Solaris: version 10.0 only; version 11.3 only

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