CVE-2012-0247: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ImageMagick 6.7.5-7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted offset and count values in the ResolutionUnit tag in the EXIF IFD0 of an image.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 11.04 only; version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: up to and including 6.7.5-7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 6.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 6.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 6.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Storage: version 2.0 only

Published 2012-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.