CVE-2019-13296

ImageMagick: direct memory leaks in AcquireMagickMemory because of an error in CLIListOperatorImages in MagickWand/operation.c for a NULL value

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 17, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

It was discovered that ImageMagick does not properly release acquired memory when some error conditions occur in the function CLIListOperatorImages() and compare option is used. An attacker could abuse this flaw by providing a specially crafted image and cause a Denial of Service by using all available memory.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of ImageMagick as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption