CVE-2012-1186

medium

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

Integer overflow in the SyncImageProfiles function in profile.c in ImageMagick 6.7.5-8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted IOP tag offsets in the IFD in an image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0248.

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-7`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-7`
debian	forky	fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-7`
debian	sid	fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-7`
debian	trixie	fixed	`8:6.6.9.7-7`
suse	11.4	affected
suse	12.1	affected
ubuntu	10.04	affected
ubuntu	11.04	affected
ubuntu	11.10	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
debian	6.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
imagemagick	imagemagick	`{"endIncluding":"6.7.5-8"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-835

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

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