ImageMagick has NULL pointer dereference in ReadSFWImage after DestroyImageInfo (sfw.c)GHSA-p33r-fqw2-rqmm
MEDIUMFix: ImageMagick/ImageMagick@332c156GHSA-p33r-fqw2-rqmm is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU. A fix is available for Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU — see the affected versions and patch details below.
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-p33r-fqw2-rqmm.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
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
Magick.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+10 moreReal-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
In ReadSFWImage() (coders/sfw.c), when temporary file creation fails, read_info is destroyed before its filename member is accessed, causing a NULL pointer dereference and crash.
AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
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==1414421==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: UNKNOWN SIGNAL on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x56260222912f bp 0x7ffec0a193b0 sp 0x7ffec0a19360 T0)
#0 0x56260222912f (/data/ylwang/LargeScan/targets/ImageMagick/utilities/magick+0x235f12f)
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU | all versions | 14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU --version 14.10.3 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU | all versions | 14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU --version 14.10.3 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 | all versions | 14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 --version 14.10.3 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 | all versions | 14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 --version 14.10.3 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 | all versions | 14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 --version 14.10.3 |
| .NETNuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 | all versions | 14.10.3dotnet add package Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 --version 14.10.3 |
Affected Products
imagemagickimagemagickDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
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.
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-p33r-fqw2-rqmm is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
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.
This MODERATE impact flaw in ImageMagick can lead to a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference when processing a crafted SFW image file. The vulnerability occurs if temporary file creation fails during image processing. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ELS and 7 ELS are affected by this flaw.
To reduce the risk associated with this vulnerability, avoid processing untrusted SFW image files with ImageMagick. If ImageMagick is deployed in environments where it processes untrusted input, consider implementing sandboxing or resource limits for ImageMagick processes to contain potential crashes and limit impact.Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-p33r-fqw2-rqmm (CC BY 4.0)
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