imagemagick — security advisory
A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/quantum.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of values outside the range of type unsigned char. 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 7.0.9-0.
- Products
- imagemagick
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27775
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/quantum.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of values outside the range of type unsigned char. 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 7.0.9-0.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27775
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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