ImageMagick: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GetPixelIndex due to metadata-cache desynchronization
`OpenPixelCache` updates image channel metadata **before** attempting pixel cache memory allocation. When both memory and disk allocation fail a heap-buffer-overflow read in occurs in any writer that calls `GetPixelIndex`.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-56362US | medium4.2 | — | ||
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-15 contains a heap-buffer-overflow read vulnerability in GetPixelIndex caused by OpenPixelCache updating image channel metadata before pixel cache memory a… | ||||
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