CVE-2026-25986: ImageMagick has heap buffer overflow in YUV 4:2:2 decoder

March 12, 2026

A heap buffer overflow write vulnerability exists in ReadYUVImage() (coders/yuv.c) when processing malicious YUV 4:2:2 (NoInterlace) images. The pixel-pair loop writes one pixel beyond the allocated row buffer.

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==204642==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x5170000002e0 at pc 0x562d21a7e8de bp 0x7fffa9ae1270 sp 0x7fffa9ae1260
WRITE of size 8 at 0x5170000002e0 thread T0

References

github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-mqfc-82jx-3mr2
github.com/advisories/GHSA-mqfc-82jx-3mr2
github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.10.3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25986

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