The vulnerability is a classic use-after-free scenario, specifically a NULL pointer dereference. The provided description clearly states that in the ReadSFWImage function within coders/sfw.c, if a temporary file creation fails, the read_info object is destroyed. Subsequently, an attempt to access the filename member of this destroyed object for error reporting causes a crash.
Analysis of the patch in commit e2b9b7433a7354a93a959f5b278f448a29337c33 confirms this. The patch removes the call to ThrowMagickException that used read_info->filename after DestroyImageInfo(read_info) had been called. This explicitly shows where the vulnerable code existed.
The vulnerable function is ReadSFWImage. During exploitation, a specially crafted SFW file could trigger the temporary file creation failure, leading to the execution of this vulnerable code path and causing a denial of service.