CVE-2020-27768

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In ImageMagick, there is an outside the range of representable values of type 'unsigned int' at MagickCore/quantum-private.h. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
ImageMagick: before 7.0.9-0 — fixed in 7.0.9-0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 7.0.9-0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894689
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894689
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00030.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00008.html

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