The vulnerability analysis began by examining the provided commit patches that fix the reported memory leak in ImageMagick. The commits for both ImageMagick and ImageMagick6 point to the same logical flaw in the StreamImage function located in MagickCore/stream.c and magick/stream.c respectively.
The core of the vulnerability is an unconditional memory allocation within the StreamImage function. The line stream_info->quantum_info=AcquireQuantumInfo(image_info,(Image *) NULL); was executed every time the function was called. The vulnerability report indicates that using multiple format specifiers (e.g., %d%d) in the magick stream command triggers the leak. This implies that the StreamImage function is invoked multiple times during a single command execution under these conditions.
The patch introduces a conditional check (if (stream_info->quantum_info == (QuantumInfo *) NULL)) before the allocation. This ensures that AcquireQuantumInfo is only called on the first entry into the function, preventing subsequent calls from overwriting the pointer and leaking the memory from the previous allocation.
The provided ASan stack trace further confirms that the leak originates within StreamImage, which is called by StreamImageCommand as part of the magick stream utility's execution flow. Therefore, StreamImage is the precise location of the vulnerability.