ImageMagick has a heap Buffer Over-read in its DJVU image format handlerGHSA-r99p-5442-q2x2
MEDIUMFix: ImageMagick/ImageMagick@e87695bGHSA-r99p-5442-q2x2 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4) CWE-122 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’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-r99p-5442-q2x2.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
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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+11 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
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40, a heap buffer over-read vulnerability exists in the DJVU image format handler. The vulnerability occurs due to integer truncation when calculating the stride (row size) for pixel buffer allocation. The stride calculation overflows a 32-bit signed integer, resulting in an out-of-bounds memory reads. Versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contain a patch.
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
magick.netdlemstraimagemagickimagemagickDetection & 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-r99p-5442-q2x2 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Stop feeding it untrusted input: reject or quarantine files and payloads from unverified sources until you can upgrade, restrict accepted formats to the ones you actually need, and run the parsing or decoding step in a least-privileged sandbox or short-lived worker so a crash or corrupted read cannot reach the rest of the process.
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 vulnerability in ImageMagick involves a heap buffer over-read within the DJVU image format handler. The flaw occurs due to an integer truncation during stride calculation for pixel buffer allocation, leading to out-of-bounds memory reads when processing a specially crafted DJVU image. Red Hat…
To mitigate this issue, avoid processing untrusted DJVU image files with ImageMagick. For server deployments, restrict network access to services that use ImageMagick for image processing. As an additional measure, consider disabling the DJVU delegate in ImageMagick's policy.xml configuration to prevent the processing of DJVU files. This may impact functionality that relies on DJVU image support.Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-r99p-5442-q2x2 (CC BY 4.0)
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