# CVE-2025-57803: ImageMagick (WriteBMPImage): 32-bit integer overflow when writing BMP scanline stride → heap buffer overflow

- Also known as: GHSA-MXVV-97WH-CFMM
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.1.2-2, 6.9.13-28, 14.8.1
- Published: 2025-08-26 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- ImageMagick: fixed in 7.1.2-2; fixed in 6.9.13-28
- Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU (NuGet): fixed in 14.8.1
- Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU (NuGet): fixed in 14.8.1
- Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-x86 (NuGet): fixed in 14.8.1
- Magick.NET-Q16-x86 (NuGet): fixed in 14.8.1
- Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU (NuGet): fixed in 14.8.1
- Magick.NET-Q8-x86 (NuGet): fixed in 14.8.1

## Description

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2 for ImageMagick's 32-bit build, a 32-bit integer overflow in the BMP encoder’s scanline-stride computation collapses bytes_per_line (stride) to a tiny value while the per-row writer still emits 3 × width bytes for 24-bpp images. The row base pointer advances using the (overflowed) stride, so the first row immediately writes past its slot and into adjacent heap memory with attacker-controlled bytes. This is a classic, powerful primitive for heap corruption in common auto-convert pipelines. This issue has been patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ImageMagick, Magick.NET-Q16-AnyCPU, Magick.NET-Q16-HDRI-AnyCPU or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (7.1.2-2, 6.9.13-28, 14.8.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/security/advisories/GHSA-mxvv-97wh-cfmm
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2c55221f4d38193adcb51056c14cf238fbcc35d7
- https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET/releases/tag/14.8.1

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