CVE-2026-109261
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
ImageMagick before 6.9.13-57 and 7.x before 7.1.2-32 contains a memory leak in the GIF encoder because allocated memory is not released when color quantization fails during encoding. Attackers can supply images whose GIF conversion causes quantization to fail, leaking memory with each attempt and degrading availability.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.3
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-12 17:17:17.883000
Last modified
2026-11-03 16:14:37.893000
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