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ImageMagick has memory leak in msl encoder

GHSA-gxcx-qjqp-8vjw · CVE-2026-25638

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Description

Memory leak exists in coders/msl.c. In the WriteMSLImage function of the msl.c file, resources are allocated. But the function returns early without releasing these allocated resources.

==78983== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==78983== Copyright (C) 2002-2022, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==78983== Using Valgrind-3.22.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==78983== 
==78983== 177,196 (13,512 direct, 163,684 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 21 of 21
==78983==    at 0x4846828: malloc (in /usr/libexec/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)

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