ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, the JXL encoder has an heap write overflow when a user specifies that the image should be encoded as 16 bit floats. This issue has been fixed in version 7.1.2-19.

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Description ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, the JXL encoder has an heap write overflow when a user specifies that the image should be encoded as 16 bit floats. This issue has been fixed in version 7.1.2-19.
Title ImageMagick: Heap buffer overflow when encoding JXL image with a 16-bit float
Weaknesses CWE-122
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{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-04-13T21:28:20.797Z

Reserved: 2026-04-09T20:59:17.619Z

Link: CVE-2026-40183

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-13T22:16:29.643

Modified: 2026-04-13T22:16:29.643

Link: CVE-2026-40183

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