GHSA-w54j-7wpm-crhj: ImageMagick has a heap-buffer-overflow in FTXT encoder

April 14, 2026 (updated April 16, 2026)

The FTXT encoder lacks a boundary check when parsing ftxt:format, resulting in an out of bounds read.

==3040863==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x5020000085b2 at pc 0x606c1ee0c6ce bp 0x7ffee30d6150 sp 0x7ffee30d6148
READ of size 1 at 0x5020000085b2 thread T0

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-w54j-7wpm-crhj
github.com/advisories/GHSA-w54j-7wpm-crhj

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