CVE-2026-28494: ImageMagick vulnerable to stack corruption through long morphology kernel names or arrays

March 12, 2026

A stack buffer overflow exists in ImageMagick’s morphology kernel parsing functions. User-controlled kernel strings exceeding a buffer are copied into fixed-size stack buffers via memcpy without bounds checking, resulting in stack corruption.

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-932h-jw47-73jm
github.com/advisories/GHSA-932h-jw47-73jm
github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.10.4
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28494

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