Out-of-Bounds Affecting gimp package, versions [,2.6.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
1.47% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GIMP-2370140
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jul 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jul 2012

CVE-2012-3236  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gimp to version 2.6.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds fits-io.c in GIMP before 2.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed XTENSION header of a .fit file, as demonstrated using a long string.

CVSS Scores

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