Medium

ImageMagick: Possible memory leak in ASHLAR encoder

  • Disclosed: 24.02.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:23

A memory leak in the ASHLAR image writer allows an attacker to exhaust process memory by providing a crafted image that results in small objects that are allocated but never freed.

==880062== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==880062== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==880062== Using Valgrind-3.18.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==880062== 
==880062== 
==880062== HEAP SUMMARY:
==880062==     in use at exit: 386,826 bytes in 696 blocks
==880062==   total heap usage: 30,523 allocs, 29,827 frees, 21,803,756 bytes allocated
==880062== 
==880062== LEAK SUMMARY:
==880062==    definitely lost: 3,408 bytes in 3 blocks
==880062==    indirectly lost: 88,885 bytes in 30 blocks
==880062==      possibly lost: 140,944 bytes in 383 blocks
==880062==    still reachable: 151,573 bytes in 259 blocks
==880062==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==880062== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown.
==880062== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all
==880062== 
==880062== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==880062== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 2 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q16-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q8-x64 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
.NET (NuGet) Magick.NET-Q8-x86 < 14.10.3 14.10.3

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-401
Platform
.NET (NuGet)
Package
Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q16-arm64, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU
Disclosed
24.02.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 11:23

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-gm37-qx7w-p258 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64

All published vulnerabilities of this package (.NET (NuGet)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (95) in the archive
Total entries
95
First → latest
07.2025 05.2026
Without a fix
1
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 19
  • Medium 59
  • Low 17

Disclosures per year

  1. 2025: 14
  2. 2026: 81
Severity:
  1. High · 7.7 CVE-2026-30929 < 14.10.4 14.10.4
  2. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-28691 < 14.10.4 14.10.4
  3. ImageMagick: Possible memory leak in ASHLAR encoder this entry
    Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-25637 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
  4. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-24485 < 14.10.3 14.10.3
  5. High · 8.8 CVE-2025-55154 < 14.8.0 14.8.0
  6. High · 7.4 CVE-2025-53101 < 14.7.0 14.7.0

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