GHSA-2gq3-ww97-wfjm: ImageMagick has a possible heap Use After Free vulnerability in its meta coder
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A heap Use After Free vulnerability exists in the meta coder when an allocation fails and a single byte is written to a stale pointer.
==535852==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x5210000088ff at pc 0x5581bacac14d bp 0x7ffdf667edf0 sp 0x7ffdf667ede0
WRITE of size 1 at 0x5210000088ff thread T0
References
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f5049954f12c6fcf090a776767526d2a4708d58b
- github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-2gq3-ww97-wfjm
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gq3-ww97-wfjm
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56376
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-heap-use-after-free-in-meta-coder
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