CVE-2012-0248

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

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CVSS v3

5.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

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-835

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

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