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CVE-2026-56376

ImageMagick - Heap Use-After-Free in Meta Coder

Published: 6/23/2026 Last updated: 6/23/2026 Reserved: 6/21/2026

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contains a heap use-after-free in the meta coder: when memory allocation fails, a single byte is written to a stale pointer. Remote attackers can trigger it by processing specially crafted image files, causing a denial of service.

CNA assigner: VulnCheck (83251b91-4cc7-4094-a5c7-464a1b83ea10) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
4.0 6.3 Medium CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
3.1 3.7 Low CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-libMagickCore ocsigen-start

Products affected (2)

Product Vendor Version
ImageMagick ImageMagick < 17.4R1-S3, 17.4R2
ImageMagick ImageMagick < 18.1R2

References (2)

Credits (1)