CVE-2012-0247

high

Published 2012-06-05 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

ImageMagick 6.7.5-7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted offset and count values in the ResolutionUnit tag in the EXIF IFD0 of an image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.2	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.04	Affected	—
11.10	Affected	—
11.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-6`
sid	Fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-6`
forky	Fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-6`
bullseye	Fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-6`
bookworm	Fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-6`
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
imagemagick	imagemagick	`{"endIncluding":"6.7.5-7"}`
redhat	storage	`2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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