🛡️ CVE-2026-61861 on Debian — imagemagick

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the FormatMagickCaption method when memory allocation fails. Attackers can trigger memory allocation failures to cause a dangling pointer to reference freed memory, potentially enabling denial of service or code execution.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-61861 as tracked by Debian, for the package imagemagick. The fix is available in version 8:7.1.2.26+dfsg1-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61861 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-61861 is recorded against 1 package.

  • imagemagick (fixed in 8:7.1.2.26+dfsg1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 July 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
imagemagick 8:7.1.2.26+dfsg1-1

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