CVE-2012-0248 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0248?

CVE-2012-0248 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Jun 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

ImageMagick 6.7.5-7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and hang) via a crafted image whose IFD contains IOP tags that all reference the beginning of the IDF.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0248?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0248?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-0248 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0248 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0248, GHSA-jxh3-f5j5-g9vq.