What is CVE-2012-0259?

CVE-2012-0259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2012-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2012-0259?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2012-0259

The GetEXIFProperty function in magick/property.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.6-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a zero value in the component count of an EXIF XResolution tag in a JPEG file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2012-06-05 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.024 (83.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Imagemagick
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 11.04, 11.10
Debian Linux — versions 6.0
openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

secunia.com/advisories/55035 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-06/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/49043 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2462 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/49063 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74657 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/48679 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/52898 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0544.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0259?: CVE-2012-0259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2012-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2012-0259?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.