Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Low 2026-07-15T11:25:48 ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Denial of Service via use-after-free during freetype initialization 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CWE-825

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 contains a use-after-free vulnerability that occurs when freetype initialization fails: the method does not exit and continues to use memory that was already freed. This can be triggered during image processing and may lead to a denial of service.

A flaw was found in ImageMagick. This vulnerability, a use-after-free, occurs when the freetype library fails to initialize, causing the software to continue processing with freed memory. A remote attacker could exploit this during image processing, leading to a denial of service (DoS) condition, which would make the service unavailable to legitimate users.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships ImageMagick in RHEL 6 ELS and RHEL 7 ELS. This flaw has been rated as having a Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of those products. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/. Do not process untrusted image files with ImageMagick. If font rendering via FreeType is not needed, the TTF and OTF coders can be disabled in ImageMagick's policy.xml: `<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="{TTF,OTF}"/>`. Upgrade to ImageMagick 7.1.2-26 or 6.9.13-51 mitigates the issue. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Fix deferred ImageMagick Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Fix deferred ImageMagick https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61860 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61860 https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-6jwg-7q3p-5fqm https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/imagemagick-before-26-use-after-free-via-freetype