What is CVE-2012-1186?

CVE-2012-1186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2012-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2012-1186?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Imagemagick

CVE-2012-1186

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.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (78.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · 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-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

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)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/51957 (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76139 (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)
secunia.com/advisories/47926 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1435-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-1186?: CVE-2012-1186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2012-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2012-1186?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.