Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-4433

Title: Gegl RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-4433.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Nov 18, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

12.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-4433: Multiple integer overflows in operations/external/ppm-load.c in GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) 0.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large (1) width or (2) height value in a Portable Pixel Map (ppm) image, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

gegl 1

Reference Links

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/?id=1e92e5235ded0415d555aa86066b8e4041ee5a53 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/?id=4757cdf73d3675478d645a3ec8250ba02168a230 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00054.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1455.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51114 http://secunia.com/advisories/51274 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:081 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56404 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027754 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856300 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79822 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/?id=1e92e5235ded0415d555aa86066b8e4041ee5a53 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/?id=4757cdf73d3675478d645a3ec8250ba02168a230 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00054.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1455.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51114 http://secunia.com/advisories/51274 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:081 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56404 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027754 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856300 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79822

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-4433 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.

November 18, 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.