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CVE-2020-10938

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

GraphicsMagick before 1.3.35 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in HuffmanDecodeImage in magick/compress.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• GraphicsMagick: before 1.3.35 — fixed in 1.3.35
• openSUSE Backports: sle-15-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GraphicsMagick 1.3.35. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00051.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00007.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/ci/5b4dd7c6674140a115ec9424c8d19c6a458fac3e/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4675
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00051.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00007.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/ci/5b4dd7c6674140a115ec9424c8d19c6a458fac3e/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4675

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