KLA10168 DoS vulnerability in GIMP

2012-12-1700:00:00

Kaspersky Lab

threats.kaspersky.com

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.759

Percentile

98.2%

JSON

A buffer overflow was found in GIMP. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed XWD file.

Original advisories

Related products

GIMP

CVE list

CVE-2012-5576 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.