Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3481

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3481.

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)
3.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3481: Integer overflow in the ReadImage function in plug-ins/common/file-gif-load.c in the GIF image format plug-in in GIMP 2.8.x and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted height and len properties in a GIF image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

G
gimp 1
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gnu 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00023.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.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/2012/08/20/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55101 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776572 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847303 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00023.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.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/2012/08/20/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55101 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776572 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847303
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-2012-3481 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.