CVE-2021-3610

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in ImageMagick in versions prior to 7.0.11-14 in ReadTIFFImage() in coders/tiff.c. This issue is due to an incorrect setting of the pixel array size, which can lead to a crash and segmentation fault.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
ImageMagick: from 6.9.10.88 before 6.9.12-14; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.11-14 — fixed in 6.9.12-14, 7.0.11-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.12-14, 7.0.11-14. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/29/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/05/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973689
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/930ff0d1a9bc42925a7856e9ea53f5fc9f318bf3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/29/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/06/05/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973689
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/930ff0d1a9bc42925a7856e9ea53f5fc9f318bf3
https://github.com/fuzzing2026/CVE-PoCs/tree/main/imagemagick-CVE-2021-3610

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