CVE-2016-9773: ImageMagick

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the IsPixelGray function in MagickCore/pixel-accessor.h in ImageMagick 7.0.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a crafted image file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9556.

Affected products

• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 7.0.3-8 only

Published 2017-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.