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CVE-2023-5341: Imagemagick: heap use-after-free in coders/bmp.c

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in coders/bmp.c in ImageMagick.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 38
• ImageMagick: before 7.1.2 — fixed in 7.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 7.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5341
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241774
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/aa673b2e4defc7cad5bec16c4fc8324f71e531f1
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5341
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241774
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/aa673b2e4defc7cad5bec16c4fc8324f71e531f1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00007.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LICYTADFJAFPZW3Y2MKNCJIUYODPAG4L/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YAULDP3GG5KI3XITQ5XSMRSILCBZS2VK/

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