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CVE-2012-0247

Publication date 13 February 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.1
11.10 oneiric
Fixed 8:6.6.0.4-3ubuntu1.1
11.04 natty
Fixed 7:6.6.2.6-1ubuntu4.1
10.10 maverick Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 7:6.5.7.8-1ubuntu1.2
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

I can't seem to reproduce this...seems to me gcc is doing the right thing when casting short to size_t

jdstrand

r6998 is the fix for CVE-2012-1185 which was assigned as an incomplete fix for this issue (see oss-sec thread).

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H