CVE-2026-61872
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 contains a memory leak in the TIFF encoder when an invalid tiff:tile-geometry is specified. Supplying malformed tile geometry parameters causes allocated memory not to be released, which can lead to increased memory consumption.
Severity
LOW
CVSS score
2.0
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-15 12:18:22.380000
Last modified
2026-10-29 21:17:29.167000
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