Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2370

Title: Gnome Gdk-Pixbuf Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2370.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Aug 13, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-2370: Multiple integer overflows in the read_bitmap_file_data function in io-xbm.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.26.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a negative (1) height or (2) width in an XBM file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/ http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=4f0f465f991cd454d03189497f923eb40c170c22 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=b1bb3053856aede37d473c92f0e5a10e29f10516 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0135.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49125 http://secunia.com/advisories/49715 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-20.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53548 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/681150 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75578 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/ http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=4f0f465f991cd454d03189497f923eb40c170c22 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=b1bb3053856aede37d473c92f0e5a10e29f10516 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0135.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49125 http://secunia.com/advisories/49715 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-20.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53548 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/681150 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75578

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2370 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 13, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.