What is CVE-2012-1798?

CVE-2012-1798 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-2012-1798?

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

Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2012-1798

The TIFFGetEXIFProperties function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.6-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted EXIF IFD in a TIFF image.

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 (83.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.6% 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
Debian Linux — versions 6.0
openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 6.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 6.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus — versions 6.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 6.0
Red Hat Storage — versions 2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

secunia.com/advisories/55035 (Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74659 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
secunia.com/advisories/49068 (Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-06/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.osvdb.org/81023 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2462 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/49063 (Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
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)
secunia.com/advisories/48974 (Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-1798?: CVE-2012-1798 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-2012-1798?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.