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CVE-2026-109279

ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Denial of Service via race condition during security policy access

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 13, 2026

Updated · October 13, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in ImageMagick. Due to improper synchronization during concurrent security policy access, simultaneous reads and writes across multiple threads can trigger a race condition, leading to a heap buffer overwrite. An attacker capable of inducing concurrent security policy operations can exploit this issue to crash the application, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 2.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write