ImageMagick: Memory allocation with excessive without limits in the internal SVG decoder

Description

A crafted SVG file containing an malicious element causes ImageMagick to attempt to allocate ~674 GB of memory, leading to an out-of-memory abort.

Found via AFL++ fuzzing with afl-clang-lto instrumentation and AddressSanitizer.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
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Published (advisory)
2026-02-24 15:44:19 UTC
Updated
2026-02-24 15:44:21 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-02-24 15:44:19 UTC
NVD published
2026-02-23

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.02% 4.71%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.5 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Credits

  • petermalone (reporter)

Affected packages (19)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence