CVE-2012-1185

high
Published 2012-06-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Multiple integer overflows in (1) magick/profile.c or (2) magick/property.c in ImageMagick 6.7.5 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted offset value in the ResolutionUnit tag in the EXIF IFD0 of an image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0247.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1185

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1185

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/19/5

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed8:6.6.9.7-7
debian debianbullseyefixed8:6.6.9.7-7
debian debianforkyfixed8:6.6.9.7-7
debian debiansidfixed8:6.6.9.7-7
debian debiantrixiefixed8:6.6.9.7-7
suse suse11.4affected
suse suse12.1affected
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
debian debian6.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
imagemagickimagemagick{"endIncluding":"6.7.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.