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ImageMagick: Memory leak in coders/txt.c without freetypeGHSA-3q5f-gmjc-38r8

NONEFix: ImageMagick/ImageMagick@e639409

GHSA-3q5f-gmjc-38r8 is a none-severity (CVSS 0) CWE-401 vulnerability in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU. A fix is available for Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2026-56371
Published
Updated
Affected
19 pkgs
Patched
19 / 19
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 6, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-3q5f-gmjc-38r8.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs38th percentile — riskier than 38% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.31%0.63%0.94%0.2%0.4%Jul 26Oct 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

19 pkgs affected
.NETMagick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64.NETMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86.NETMagick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64+11 more

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects NuGet packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

If a texture attribute is specified for a TXT file, an attempt will be made to read it via texture=ReadImage(read_info,exception);. Later, when retrieving metrics via the GetTypeMetrics function, if this function fails (i.e., status == MagickFalse), the calling function will exit immediately but fail to release the texture object, leading to memory leakage.

Affected Packages

19 total 19 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-AnyCPUall versions14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU --version 14.10.3
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPUall versions14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU --version 14.10.3
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64all versions14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.10.3
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64all versions14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 --version 14.10.3
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64all versions14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 --version 14.10.3
.NETNuGetMagick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64all versions14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 --version 14.10.3

Affected Products

1 product · 2 configurations
Application
imagemagickimagemagick
≥ 7.0.0-0 && < 7.1.2-15
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.3 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-3q5f-gmjc-38r8 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatModerate

A moderate-impact memory leak in ImageMagick can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) if a user or automated system is tricked into processing a maliciously crafted TXT file.

Workaround published by Red Hat
If your application does not explicitly require rendering TXT files via ImageMagick, you should disable the vulnerable coder entirely. This removes the attack vector at the application layer. If ImageMagick is executed by a background service, worker queue, or web server (such as httpd or nginx), utilize systemd's control groups (cgroups) to isolate the process's memory pool. This ensures that if the leak is triggered, the Linux Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer only terminates the offending worker rather than crashing the entire OS.
Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-3q5f-gmjc-38r8 (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

If a `texture` attribute is specified for a TXT file, an attempt will be made to read it via `texture=ReadImage(read_info,exception);`. Later, when retrieving metrics via the `GetTypeMetrics` function, if this function fails (i.e., `status == MagickFalse`), the calling function will exit immediately but fail to release the texture object, leading to memory leakage.
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