CVE-2023-3745
mediumA heap-based buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick's PushCharPixel() function in quantum-private.h.
Vendor / product: Imagemagick — imagemagick
A heap-based buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick's PushCharPixel() function in quantum-private.h. This issue may allow a local attacker to trick the user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering an out-of-bounds read error and allowing an application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2023-07-24 16:15
Modified: 2026-11-07 12:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 4 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-07 12:18 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
imagemagick / imagemagick ≥6.0 <6.9-11-0, ≥7.0.0-0 <7.0.10-0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/54cdc146bbe50018526770be201b56643ad58ba7
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/651672f19c75161a6159d9b6838fd3095b6c5304
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/7486477aa00c5c7856b111506da075b6cdfa8b73
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/b466a96965afc1308a4ace93f5535c2b770f294b
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/54cdc146bbe50018526770be201b56643ad58ba7
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/651672f19c75161a6159d9b6838fd3095b6c5304
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3745 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223557 secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/54cdc146bbe50018526770be201b56643ad58ba7 secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/651672f19c75161a6159d9b6838fd3095b6c5304 secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1857 secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/7486477aa00c5c7856b111506da075b6cdfa8b7... secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/b466a96965afc1308a4ace93f5535c2b770f294... secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3745 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223557 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/54cdc146bbe50018526770be201b56643ad58ba7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/651672f19c75161a6159d9b6838fd3095b6c5304 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1857 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/7486477aa00c5c7856b111506da075b6cdfa8b7... af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/b466a96965afc1308a4ace93f5535c2b770f294... af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-07 12:18 UTC · record ↗