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imagemagick — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27763

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/resize.c. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of math division by zero. This would most likely lead to an impact to application availability, but could potentially cause other problems related to undefined behavior. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.8-68.

Products
imagemagick
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-27763
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:50 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27763

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Dec 2020, 17:15 UTC

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/resize.c. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of math division by zero. This would most likely lead to an impact to application availability, but could potentially cause other problems related to undefined behavior. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.8-68.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27763

imagemagick

Fixed versions: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1

imagemagick

Fixed versions: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1

imagemagick

Fixed versions: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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