CVE-2012-0260 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0260?

CVE-2012-0260 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Jun 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The JPEGWarningHandler function in coders/jpeg.c in ImageMagick before 6.7.6-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a JPEG image with a crafted sequence of restart markers.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0260?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Aus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0260?

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-2012-0260 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0260 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0260, GHSA-xqm6-6gwm-hwpw.