Use After Free Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]
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- published12 Jul 2026
- disclosed11 Jul 2026
- creditRigelYoung
Introduced: 11 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-61861 (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 Use After Free via the FormatMagickCaption function in MagickCore/annotate.c. An attacker can trigger a dangling-pointer dereference by supplying caption text that drives the memory-allocation failure path during caption formatting. When ReplaceSpaceWithNewline(caption, s) fails, FormatMagickCaption continues using the stale s pointer, which still refers to freed memory. This can crash the application while processing the image caption and disrupt any operation that renders or converts the affected image.
Notes
- The vulnerable path is only reachable during caption formatting when
ReplaceSpaceWithNewline(caption, s)returns a replacement buffer; deployments that never exercise caption rendering/annotation through this code path are not exposed. - The issue is tied to the memory-failure branch inside
FormatMagickCaption, so it depends on an allocation failure while processing the caption text rather than ordinary caption content alone.