CVE-2026-34238

Publication date 13 April 2026

Last updated 24 September 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below both 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44, an integer overflow in the despeckle operation causes a heap buffer overflow on 32-bit builds that will result in an out of bounds write. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.9.13-44 and 7.1.2-19.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 8:7.1.2.18+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm14
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5+esm15
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.11+esm15
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.15+esm17
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm25
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm26

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
imagemagick

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.1 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-8810-1
    • ImageMagick vulnerabilities
    • 24 September 2026

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