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CVE-2022-1115 json

A heap-buffer-overflow flaw was found in ImageMagick’s PushShortPixel() function of quantum-private.h file.

published 2022-08-29 4 y ago modified 2026-07-30 3 mo ago also EUVD-2022-24458 , JLSEC-2026-894

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A heap-buffer-overflow flaw was found in ImageMagick’s PushShortPixel() function of quantum-private.h file. This vulnerability is triggered when an attacker passes a specially crafted TIFF image file to ImageMagick for conversion, potentially leading to a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • julia ImageMagick_jll 6.9.12+3
  • imagemagick imagemagick 6.9.12-44, 7.1.0-29
  • imagemagick Debian 12 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1
  • imagemagick Debian 14, Debian 13 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1115

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.1.17-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13263-1

  • imagemagick Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 7.1.0.30-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-1115

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-2022-1115 updated cvss 5.5

ImageMagick: heap-buffer-overflow in PushShortPixel of quantum-private.h

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 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

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/4974 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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+3
6.9.12+3

Affected products

  • n/a ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

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