CVE-2012-3236

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-06-29
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
834627: CVE-2012-3236 gimp: NULL pointer deref crash when reading FIT file with crafted XTENSION header

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

fits-io.c in GIMP before 2.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed XTENSION header of a .fit file, as demonstrated using a long string.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3236 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

We do not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as Gimp to be a security issue.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gimp Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gimp Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Joseph Sheridan for reporting this issue.

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