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CVE-2012-3236
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…
Medium4.3EPSS 10.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.7% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- USN-1559-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/plug-ins/file-fits/fits-io.c?id=ace45631595e8781a1420842582d67160097163c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 19482 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/FIT-file-handling-dos.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- gimp-fit-dos(76658) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20120629 GIMP FIT File Format DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDVSA-2013:082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676804 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 54246 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .