GitHub Advisoryadvisory · NuGet
GHSA-fh55-q5pj-pxgw ImageMagick affected by divide-by-zero in ThumbnailImage via montage -geometry ":" leads to crash
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-55212
- Ecosystem
- NuGet
- Packages
- Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86, Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64, Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64, Magick.NET-Q16-arm64, Magick.NET-Q16-x64, Magick.NET-Q16-x86, Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64, Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64, Magick.NET-Q8-arm64, Magick.NET-Q8-x64, Magick.NET-Q8-x86
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
- Reviewed
- 2025-08-26
Affected packages
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-arm64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-OpenMP-x64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-arm64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-arm64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-OpenMP-x64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-arm64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-x64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q16-x86: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-arm64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q8-OpenMP-x64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q8-arm64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q8-x64: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
• NuGet Magick.NET-Q8-x86: < 14.8.1 → fixed in 14.8.1
Description
Summary
Passing a geometry string containing only a colon (":") to montage -geometry leads GetGeometry() to set width/height to 0. Later, ThumbnailImage() divides by these zero dimensions, triggering a crash (SIGFPE/abort), resulting in a denial of service.
Details
Root Cause
1. `montage -geometry ":" ...` reaches `MagickCore/geometry.c:GetGeometry().`
2. `StringToDouble/InterpretLocaleValue` parses `":"` as `0.0;` then:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/0ba1b587be17543b664f7ad538e9e51e0da59d17/MagickCore/geometry.c#L355
`WidthValue` (and/or `HeightValue)` is set with a zero dimension.
3. In MagickCore/resize.c:ThumbnailImage(), the code computes:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/0ba1b587be17543b664f7ad538e9e51e0da59d17/MagickCore/resize.c#L4625-L4629
causing a division by zero and immediate crash.
The issue is trivially triggerable without external input files (e.g., using `xc:white`).
Reproduction
Environment
```
Version: ImageMagick 7.1.2-1 (Beta) Q16-HDRI x86_64 0ba1b587b:20250812 https://imagemagick.org
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI
Delegates (built-in): bzlib fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lzma pangocairo png tiff x xml zlib
Compiler: clang (14.0.0)
OS/Arch: Linux x86_64
```
Steps
```
./bin/magick montage -geometry : xc:white null:
```
Observed result
```
IOT instruction (core dumped)
(Environment-dependent: SIGFPE/abort may be observed.)
```
PoC
No external file required; the pseudo image xc:white suffices:
```
./bin/magick montage -geometry : xc:white null:
```
Impact
• Denial of Service: A divide-by-zero in `ThumbnailImage()` causes immediate abnormal termination (e.g., SIGFPE/abort), crashing the ImageMagick process.
Suggested fix
Defensively reject zero dimensions early in `ThumbnailImage()`:
```c
if ((columns == 0) || (rows == 0)) {
(void) ThrowMagickException(exception, GetMagickModule(), OptionError,
"InvalidGeometry", "thumbnail requires non-zero dimensions: %.20gx%.20g",
(double) columns, (double) rows);
return (Image *) NULL;
}
```
Additionally, consider tightening validation in `GetGeometry()` so that colon-only (and similar malformed) inputs do not yield `WidthValue/HeightValue` with zero, or are rejected outright. Variants like `"x:"` or `":x"` may also need explicit handling (maintainer confirmation requested).
Credits
Team Daemon Fuzz Hunters
Bug Hunting Master Program, HSpace/Findthegap
Woojin Park
@jin-156
[email protected]
Hojun Lee
@leehohojune
[email protected]
Youngin Won
@amethyst0225
[email protected]
Siyeon Han
@hanbunny
[email protected]
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-55212 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-fh55-q5pj-pxgw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55212 advisory
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/5f0bcf986b8b5e90567750d31a37af502b73f2af web
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick package
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/0ba1b587be17543b664f7ad538e9e51e0da59d17/MagickCore/geometry.c#L355 web
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/0ba1b587be17543b664f7ad538e9e51e0da59d17/MagickCore/resize.c#L4625-L4629 web
- https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.8.1 web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00012.html web