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CVE-2023-1906

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in ImageMagick's ImportMultiSpectralQuantum() function in MagickCore/quantum-import.c. An attacker could pass specially crafted file to convert, triggering an out-of-bounds read error, allowing an application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.12-84; 7.1.1-4 — fixed in 6.9.12-84

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.12-84. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1906
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185714
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d7a8bdd7bb33cf8e58bc01b4a4f2ea5466f8c6b3
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-35q2-86c7-9247
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/e30c693b37c3b41723f1469d1226a2c814ca443d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6655G3GPS42WQM32DJHUCZALI2URQSCO/
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1906
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185714
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/d7a8bdd7bb33cf8e58bc01b4a4f2ea5466f8c6b3
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-35q2-86c7-9247
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/e30c693b37c3b41723f1469d1226a2c814ca443d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6655G3GPS42WQM32DJHUCZALI2URQSCO/

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