Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]
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- published21 Jan 2026
- disclosed21 Jan 2026
- creditKeryer
Introduced: 21 Jan 2026
CVE-2026-56364 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in the LoadOpenCLDeviceBenchmark function when parsing malformed XML files. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion and potential denial of service by placing specially crafted XML files with incomplete <device tags in the OpenCL cache directory.
Note:
This is only exploitable if the attacker has write access to the OpenCL cache directory and OpenCL is enabled.