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CVE-2012-0259

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% 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-125

Description

The GetEXIFProperty function in magick/property.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.6-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a zero value in the component count of an EXIF XResolution tag in a JPEG file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
• Debian Linux: 6.0
• ImageMagick: before 6.7.6-3 — fixed in 6.7.6-3
• Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.7.6-3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-06/msg00001.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0544.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48679
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48974
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49043
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49063
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49317
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55035
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1435-1
• http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2012/vulnerability635606.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2462
• http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20629

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