Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3403

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3403.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Aug 25, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3403: Heap-based buffer overflow in the KiSS CEL file format plug-in in GIMP 2.8.x and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted KiSS palette file, which triggers an "invalid free."

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1180.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50296 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:142 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:082 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55101 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839020 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1180.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50296 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:142 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:082 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55101 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839020

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-2012-3403 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.