CVE-2012-3236

NameCVE-2012-3236
Descriptionfits-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gimp (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.8.14-1+deb8u2fixed
stretch (security)2.8.18-1+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.8.18-1+deb9u2fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.10.8-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye2.10.22-4+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)2.10.22-4+deb11u1fixed
bookworm2.10.34-1+deb12u2fixed
bookworm (security)2.10.34-1+deb12u1fixed
sid2.10.38-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gimpsource(unstable)2.8.2-1unimportant

Notes

Harmless crasher w/o security impact
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676804
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=0474376d234bc3d0901fd5e86f89d778a6473dd8 (GIMP_2_8_2)

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