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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…
Medium6.8EPSS 5.0%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.8% 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 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- USN-1559-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1180 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1027411 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1181 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 55101 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2013:082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 50296 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839020 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120820 The Gimp CEL plug-in CVE-2012-3403 issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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)
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