What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-0248

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-06-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

ImageMagick 6.7.5-7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang) via a crafted image whose IFD contains IOP tags that all reference the beginning of the IDF.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• ImageMagick: through 6.7.5-7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0, 6.0
• RedHat Storage: 2.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0544.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0545.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47926
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48247
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48259
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49043
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49063
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49068
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1435-1
• http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2012/vulnerability595210.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2427
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-09.xml

Get alerted when CVE-2012-0248 or the next vulnerability affects your stack