GHSA-gxcx-qjqp-8vjw
ImageMagick has memory leak in msl encoder
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x86 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q16-x86 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q8-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
| NuGet | Magick.NET-Q8-x86.NET-Q8-x64 | < 14.10.3 | 14.10.3 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
Memory leak exists in `coders/msl.c`. In the `WriteMSLImage` function of the `msl.c` file, resources are allocated. But the function returns early without releasing these allocated resources.
```
==78983== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==78983== Copyright (C) 2002-2022, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==78983== Using Valgrind-3.22.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==78983==
==78983== 177,196 (13,512 direct, 163,684 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 21 of 21
==78983== at 0x4846828: malloc (in /usr/libexec/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
```
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-gxcx-qjqp-8vjw
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25638
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1e88fca11c7b8517100d518bc99bd8c474f02f88
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
- https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.10.3