What is CVE-2012-1610?

CVE-2012-1610 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2012-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2012-1610?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Imagemagick

CVE-2012-1610

Integer overflow in the GetEXIFProperty function in magick/property.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.6-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a large component count for certain EXIF tags in a JPEG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0259.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.047 (91.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.047 · newest: 0.047 · 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

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)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/04/6 (mailing-list, 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.osvdb.org/81024 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/52898 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1435-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/48974 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-1610?: CVE-2012-1610 is a high-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2012-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2012-1610?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.