High
Security advisory
ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-12979
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.
osv:CVE-2019-12979
Complete source record
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