Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting imagemagick package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-IMAGEMAGICK-21708137
  • published25 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-116152  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (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 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via the MAT decoder error path. An attacker can exhaust system memory by repeatedly supplying crafted MAT files that trigger the failure to release allocated memory.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1