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ImageMagick: MSL - Stack overflow in ProcessMSLScript

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 23, 2026 in ImageMagick/ImageMagick • Updated Mar 12, 2026

Package

nuget Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU (NuGet)

Affected versions

< 14.10.3

Patched versions

14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x86 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-arm64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q16-x86 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-arm64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x64 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3
nuget Magick.NET-Q8-x86 (NuGet)
< 14.10.3
14.10.3

Description

Summary

Magick fails to check for circular references between two MSLs, leading to a stack overflow.

Details

After reading a.msl using magick, the following is displayed:

MSLStartElement -> ReadImage -> ReadMSLImage -> ProcessMSLScript -> xmlParseChunk -> xmlParseTryOrFinish -> MSLStartElement

AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
=================================================================
==114345==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: UNKNOWN SIGNAL on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x72509fc7d804 bp 0x7ffd6598b390 sp 0x7ffd6598ab20 T0)
    #0 0x72509fc7d804 in strlen ../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:388
[...]

References

@dlemstra dlemstra published to ImageMagick/ImageMagick Feb 23, 2026
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 24, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2026
Reviewed Mar 12, 2026
Last updated Mar 12, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(14th percentile)

Weaknesses

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack. Learn more on MITRE.

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-25971

GHSA ID

GHSA-8mpr-6xr2-chhc

Source code

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