CVE-2012-2763

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 81.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the readstr_upto function in plug-ins/script-fu/tinyscheme/scheme.c in GIMP 2.6.12 and earlier, and possibly 2.6.13, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a command to the script-fu server.

Affected products

GIMP: through 2.6.13

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-6&id=744f7a4a2b5acb8b531a6f5dd8744ebb95348fc2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/31/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/01/1
http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/advisories/scriptfu-buffer-overflow-GIMP-2.6.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679215
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-6&id=744f7a4a2b5acb8b531a6f5dd8744ebb95348fc2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html

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