CVE-2026-61868

A flaw was found in ImageMagick. A remote attacker could exploit a memory leak in the YUV decoder when processing a specially crafted image file. Repeatedly triggering this flaw can lead to resource exhaustion, resulting in a denial of service for the application.

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/.

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.

Do not process untrusted image files with ImageMagick. The YUV coder can be disabled in ImageMagick's policy.xml if not needed: <policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="YUV"/>. Upgrade to ImageMagick 7.1.2-26 or 6.9.13-51 mitigates the issue.