CVE-2012-6470

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Opera before 12.12 does not properly allocate memory for GIF images, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory overwrite) via a malformed image.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 12.11; 1.00, 2.00, 2.10, 2.10-beta1, 2.10-beta2, 2.10-beta3 (+162)

References

http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1212/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1038/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1212/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1038/

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