CVE-2012-0259

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-0259
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercertcc
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-05 22:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 6.5 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-125 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary6.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 6.0 All All All
Application Imagemagick Imagemagick All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 11.4 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Security Advisory SA55035 - Oracle Solaris ImageMagick Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
openSUSE-SU-2012:0692-1: moderate: update for ImageMagick af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-1435-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
807993 – (CVE-2012-0259) CVE-2012-0259 ImageMagick: Out-of heap-based buffer read by processing crafted JPEG EXIF header tag value af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
www.osvdb.org/81021 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
ImageMagick Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
ImageMagick • View topic - ImageMagick Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.imagemagick.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
ImageMagick Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2462-2 imagemagick af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CERT-FI - CERT-FI Advisory on issues in ImageMagick af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.fi Broken Link
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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