Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3402

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3402.

CWE Category CWE-190

Published Date Aug 25, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3402: Integer overflow in plug-ins/common/psd.c in the Adobe Photoshop PSD plugin in GIMP 2.2.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted channels header value in a PSD image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3909.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/6 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=603059&action=diff https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838941 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/6 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=603059&action=diff https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838941

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3402 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 25, 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.