CVE-2012-2370

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the read_bitmap_file_data function in io-xbm.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.26.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a negative (1) height or (2) width in an XBM file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

GNOME Gdk-Pixbuf: through 2.26.0; 2.23.3, 2.23.4, 2.23.5, 2.24.0, 2.24.1, 2.25.0 (+1)

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=4f0f465f991cd454d03189497f923eb40c170c22
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=b1bb3053856aede37d473c92f0e5a10e29f10516
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0135.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49125
http://secunia.com/advisories/49715
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-20.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/15/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53548
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/681150
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75578

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