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Medium USN-8810-1 7 CVEs

imagemagick vulnerabilities

Published Sep 24, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain
memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-33535)

Kamil Frankowicz discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle
certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-33536)

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain
integer arithmetic. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-34238)

Jake Lamberson discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle
certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-40310)

Junmin Zhu discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain
memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-40311)

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle opening
certain MSL files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly cause a
denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-40312)

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain
memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-56361)

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm26
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm25
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.15+esm17
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.11+esm15
Ubuntu · Pro 22.04 LTS Pro:22.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5+esm15
Ubuntu · Pro 24.04 LTS Pro:24.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm14
Ubuntu · Pro 26.04 LTS Pro:26.04:LTS imagemagick 8:7.1.2.18+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

Vulnerabilities 7

  • Medium 6.2

    ImageMagick: Off-by-One in MSL decoder could result in crash

    ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, an off by one error in the MSL decoder could result in a crash when a malicous MSL file is read. This issue has been fixed in version 7.…

  • Medium 5.5

    ImageMagick: Heap out-of-bounds write in JP2 encoder

    ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Versions below both 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44, contain a heap out-of-bounds write in the JP2 encoder with when a user specifies an invalid sampling index. This issue h…

  • Medium 5.5

    ImageMagick: Heap-use-after-free via XMP profile could result in a crash when printing values

    ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Versions below 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44 contain a heap use-after-free vulnerability that can cause a crash when reading and printing values from an invalid XMP profil…

  • Medium 5.1

    ImageMagick has an Out-of-bounds Write via InterpretImageFilename

    ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-18 and 6.9.13-43, due to an incorrect return value on certain platforms a pointer is incremented past the end of a buffer that is on the stack and th…

  • Medium 5.1

    ImageMagick: Integer overflow in despeckle operation causes heap buffer overflow on 32-bit builds

    ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below both 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44, an integer overflow in the despeckle operation causes a heap buffer overflow on 32-bit builds that will result in an …

  • Medium 4.0

    ImageMagick has an Out-of-Bounds write of a zero byte in its X11 display interaction

    ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-18 and 6.9.13-43, an out-of-bounds write of a zero byte exists in the X11 `display` interaction path that could lead to a crash. Versions 7.1.2-18 an…

  • Low 3.3

    ImageMagick - Heap Buffer Overflow via Off-by-One in Morphology Processing

    ImageMagick before 7.1.2-19 contains an off-by-one error in morphology validation allowing out-of-bounds heap buffer reads. Attackers can trigger heap buffer overflow by providing incorrect morphology parameters causing single pixel memory access violations.

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-33535
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-33536
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-34238
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40310
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40311
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40312
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-56361