CVE-2021-3596

ImageMagick: NULL pointer dereference in ReadSVGImage() in coders/svg.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 25, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in ImageMagick in ReadSVGImage() in coders/svg.c . This issue is due to not checking the return value from libxml2's xmlCreatePushParserCtxt() and uses the value directly, which leads to a crash and segmentation fault.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference