National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3481

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847303

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847303

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776572

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776572

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1559-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027411

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027411

External Source: BID

Name: 55101

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55101

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120820 The Gimp GIF plug-in CVE-2012-3481 issue

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/8

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:142

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:142

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50296

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50296

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1181

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1180

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1180.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1131

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00043.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1080

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1038

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00023.html