CVE-2012-1798 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-1798?

CVE-2012-1798 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian 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 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.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1798?

It affects 10 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2012-1798?

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-2012-1798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1798 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1798, GHSA-xj4q-67vj-g953.