ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-39/7.1.2-14 PCD Image Parser heap-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-39/7.1.2-14. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component PCD Image Parser. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-26284. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick up to 6.9.13-39/7.1.2-14. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component PCD Image Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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, ImageMagick lacks proper boundary checking when processing Huffman-coded data from PCD (Photo CD) files. The decoder contains an function that has an incorrect initialization that could cause an out of bounds read. Versions 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 contain a patch.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-26284 since 02/12/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 299910 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-26284), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.9.13-40 or 7.1.2-15 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (299910), EUVD (EUVD-2026-7413) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-0484). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• Open Source ImageMagick

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• Image Processing Software

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• ImageMagick

Version

• 6.9.13-39
• 7.1.2-14

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://www.imagemagick.org/

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