CVE-2012-3481

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the ReadImage function in plug-ins/common/file-gif-load.c in the GIF image format plug-in in GIMP 2.8.x and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted height and len properties in a GIF image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

GIMP: through 2.8.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1180.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50296
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:142
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:082
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55101
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1

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