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Joonas Kuorilehto and Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain ResolutionUnit tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0247, CVE-2012-1185) Joonas Kuorilehto and Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain IFD structures. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0248, CVE-2012-1186) Aleksis Kauppinen, Joonas Kuorilehto and Tuomas Parttimaa discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JPEG EXIF tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0259) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JPEG EXIF tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-1610) Aleksis Kauppinen, Joonas Kuorilehto and Tuomas Parttimaa discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain TIFF EXIF tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-1798)

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