ImageMagick up to 7.1.2-32 PerlMagick memory leak

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in ImageMagick. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component PerlMagick. Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-116157. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in ImageMagick. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component PerlMagick. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-33 contains a memory leak vulnerability in PerlMagick that fails to free values returned when reading image properties. Attackers can repeatedly trigger property reads through five affected PerlMagick code locations to exhaust memory and cause denial of service.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-116157 since 10/25/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

Upgrading to version 7.1.2-33 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Type

• Image Processing Software

Name

• ImageMagick

Version

• 1.1.7
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.8
• 5.4
• 5.4.3
• 5.4.4
• 5.4.4.5
• 5.4.7
• 5.4.8
• 5.4.8.2.1.1.0
• 5.5
• 5.5.3.2.1.2.0
• 5.5.4
• 5.5.6
• 5.5.6.0 2003-04-09
• 5.5.7
• 5.5.7.31
• 6
• 6.0
• 6.0.0.7
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.1.4
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.2.5
• 6.0.2.7
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.3.5
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.4.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.5.3
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.6.1
• 6.0.6.2
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.1
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1.6
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.2
• 6.2.0.4
• 6.2.0.7
• 6.2.0.8
• 6.2.1
• 6.2.1.7
• 6.2.2
• 6.2.2.3
• 6.2.2.5
• 6.2.3
• 6.2.3.6
• 6.2.4
• 6.2.4.2-r1
• 6.2.4.5
• 6.2.5
• 6.2.6
• 6.2.7
• 6.2.8
• 6.2.9
• 6.3.0.0
• 6.3.0.1
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• 6.3.0.7
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• 6.3.2.7
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• 6.3.3.0
• 6.3.3.1
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• 6.3.3.3
• 6.3.3.4
• 6.3.5-9
• 6.5.2-8
• 6.5.3-5
• 6.6.0-4
• 6.7.8-0
• 6.7.8-1
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• 6.8.9-9
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• 6.8.9.9-4
• 6.9.0-4 Beta
• 6.9.0-5 Beta
• 6.9.1-3
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• 6.9.9-0
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• 6.9.9-5
• 6.9.9-24
• 6.9.10-41
• 6.9.10-42
• 6.9.10-68
• 6.9.10-69
• 6.9.11-0
• 6.9.11-22
• 6.9.11-40
• 6.9.12
• 6.9.12-22
• 6.9.12-91
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• 6.9.13-32
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• 6.9.13-58
• 7
• 7.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.1-0
• 7.0.1-1
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• 7.0.1-10
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• 7.0.3-6
• 7.0.3-8
• 7.0.3.0
• 7.0.3.7
• 7.0.3.8
• 7.0.4-3
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• 7.0.4-6
• 7.0.4-9
• 7.0.4.9
• 7.0.5-0
• 7.0.5-2
• 7.0.5-4
• 7.0.5-5
• 7.0.5-6
• 7.0.5-6 Q16
• 7.0.5-7
• 7.0.5-8
• 7.0.5-9
• 7.0.5-10
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.6-0
• 7.0.6-1
• 7.0.6-1 Q16
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• 7.0.6-8 Q16
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• 7.0.8-8
• 7.0.8-9
• 7.0.8-11
• 7.0.8-11 Q16
• 7.0.8-13
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• 7.0.8-16
• 7.0.8-25
• 7.0.8-26 Q16
• 7.0.8-32
• 7.0.8-34
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• 7.0.8-40
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• 7.0.8-41
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• 7.0.8-42
• 7.0.8-43
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• 7.0.8-50 Q16
• 7.0.8-54
• 7.0.8-54 Q16
• 7.0.8-55
• 7.0.8-62
• 7.0.8-67
• 7.0.8-68
• 7.0.8-69
• 7.0.9
• 7.0.9-0
• 7.0.9-7 Q16
• 7.0.10
• 7.0.10-0
• 7.0.10-7
• 7.0.10-31
• 7.0.10-34
• 7.0.10-39
• 7.0.10-40
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• 7.0.10-56
• 7.0.11
• 7.0.11-5
• 7.0.11-14
• 7.1.0-4
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• 7.1.0-7
• 7.1.0-14
• 7.1.0-27
• 7.1.0-30
• 7.1.0-49
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.1-7
• 7.1.1-14
• 7.1.1-44
• 7.1.2-0
• 7.1.2-1
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• 7.1.2-6
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License

• open-source

Website

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

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