CVE-2012-1798

medium

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

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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

6.5

Description

The TIFFGetEXIFProperties function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.6-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted EXIF IFD in a TIFF image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.2	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
12.1	Affected	—
11.4	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`8:6.7.4.0-4`
sid	Fixed	`8:6.7.4.0-4`
forky	Fixed	`8:6.7.4.0-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`8:6.7.4.0-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`8:6.7.4.0-4`
6.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
imagemagick	imagemagick	`{"endExcluding":"6.7.6-3"}`	`6.7.6-3`
redhat	storage	`2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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