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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-20224 json

An integer overflow issue was discovered in ImageMagick's ExportIndexQuantum() function in MagickCore/quantum-export.c.

published 2022-08-25 4 y ago modified 2026-07-30 3 mo ago also EUVD-2021-7664 , JLSEC-2026-878

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An integer overflow issue was discovered in ImageMagick's ExportIndexQuantum() function in MagickCore/quantum-export.c. Function calls to GetPixelIndex() could result in values outside the range of representable for the 'unsigned char'. When ImageMagick processes a crafted pdf file, this could lead to an undefined behaviour or a crash.

Patch / fix

  • julia ImageMagick_jll 6.9.12+0
  • imagemagick imagemagick 6.9.11-57, 7.0.10-57
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8:6.9.11.57+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20224

  • imagemagick Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.14
  • imagemagick Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.9
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm3
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm5
  • imagemagick Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.4+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20224

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP5 +1 more 6.8.8.1-71.180.1
  • ImageMagick SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP3, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 +1 more 7.0.7.34-150200.10.36.1
  • ImageMagick SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP1-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS 7.0.7.34-150000.3.123.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:4634-1SUSE-SU-2022:3138-1SUSE-SU-2022:3119-1

  • imagemagick Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 7.0.10.57-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-20224

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-20224 updated cvss 5.5

ImageMagick: integer overflow in ExportIndexQuantum() in MagickCore/quantum-export.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia ImageMagick_jll
<6.9.12+0
6.9.12+0

Affected products

  • n/a ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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