Low [CVE-2026-61860] Denial of Service via use-after-free during freetype initialization
This low-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-61860 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat package: imagemagick.
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Summary
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 contains a use-after-free vulnerability that occurs when freetype initialization fails: the method does not exit and continues to use memory that was already freed. This can be triggered during image processing and may lead to a denial of service.
This vulnerability, a use-after-free, occurs when the freetype library fails to initialize, causing the software to continue processing with freed memory. A remote attacker could exploit this during image processing, leading to a denial of service (DoS) condition, which would make the service unavailable to legitimate users.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships ImageMagick in RHEL 6 ELS and RHEL 7 ELS. This flaw has been rated as having a Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of those products.
For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification:. Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 3.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).
Weakness: CWE-825. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: imagemagick.
- < 7.1.2-26
- < 6.9.13-51
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- Do not process untrusted image files with ImageMagick. If font rendering via FreeType is not needed, the TTF and OTF coders can be disabled in ImageMagick's policy.xml: `<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="{TTF,OTF}"/>`. Upgrade to ImageMagick 7.1.2-26 or 6.9.13-51 mitigates the issue.
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