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CVE-2023-39978

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

ImageMagick before 6.9.12-91 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) in Magick::Draw.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.12-91 — fixed in 6.9.12-91

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.12-91. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/c90e79b3b22fec309cab55af2ee606f71b027b12
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/compare/6.9.12-90...6.9.12-91
• https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406/files
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4UFQJCYJ23HWHNDOVKBHZQ7HCXXL6MM3/
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/c90e79b3b22fec309cab55af2ee606f71b027b12
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/compare/6.9.12-90...6.9.12-91
• https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406/files
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4UFQJCYJ23HWHNDOVKBHZQ7HCXXL6MM3/

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