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CVE-2019-17541

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

ImageMagick before 7.0.8-55 has a use-after-free in DestroyStringInfo in MagickCore/string.c because the error manager is mishandled in coders/jpeg.c.

Affected products

• ImageMagick: before 6.9.10-55; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.8-55 — fixed in 6.9.10-55, 7.0.8-55

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-55, 7.0.8-55. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15827
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/39f226a9c137f547e12afde972eeba7551124493
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/7.0.8-54...7.0.8-55
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1641
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15827
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/39f226a9c137f547e12afde972eeba7551124493
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/7.0.8-54...7.0.8-55
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1641

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