CVE-2026-31853 ImageMagick has a heap buffer over-write on 32-bit systems in SFW decoder

What is CVE-2026-31853?

CVE-2026-31853 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 11 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41, an overflow on 32-bit systems can cause a crash in the SFW decoder when processing extremely large images. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.2-16 and 6.9.13-41.

Weakness: CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-31853?

38 open source packages ship an affected version, including Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU and Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64. It affects 1 product.

Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2026-31853?

Upgrade Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU to 14.10.4 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2026-31853 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31853 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick

• CVE-2019-19952 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16328 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-16329 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-18210 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-14138 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.8

All Imagemagick Imagemagick vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31853, ECHO-9e36-f4c4-5d7e, GHSA-56jp-jfqg-f8f4, JLSEC-2026-988, MINI-vq23-8grp-5f4f, SUSE-SU-2026:21615-1 and 2 more.