What is CVE-2012-1185?

CVE-2012-1185 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2012-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2012-1185?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2012-1185

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.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.297 (98.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.297 · newest: 0.297 · 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-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

www.osvdb.org/80556 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-06/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secunia.com/advisories/49043 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2462 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/51957 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/19/5 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/6998/ImageMagick/branches/ImageMagick-6.7.5/magi… (Broken Link)
trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/6998/ImageMagick/branches/ImageMagick-6.7.5/magi… (Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/47926 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-1185?: CVE-2012-1185 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2012-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2012-1185?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.