The analysis began by investigating the provided security advisory GHSA-5v62-8fq6-cp9m, which describes an infinite loop vulnerability in ImageMagick's subimage-search operation. The advisory pointed to patched versions 7.1.2-24 and 6.9.13-49. By comparing the git tags for versions 7.1.2-23 and 7.1.2-24 of the ImageMagick repository, a specific commit (3a12d63368e88350ed838966fcbb67625938cf3a) was identified with a commit message directly referencing the advisory. Analyzing this commit revealed a change in the SimilarityImage function within the MagickCore/compare.c file. The patch modifies the arguments to the CloneImage function, correcting the calculation of the output image dimensions. This incorrect dimension calculation is the root cause of the infinite loop when processing a crafted image. Therefore, the SimilarityImage function is the vulnerable function.