CVE-2012-4433 (GCVE-0-2012-4433)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-18 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in operations/external/ppm-load.c in GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) 0.2.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large (1) width or (2) height value in a Portable Pixel Map (ppm) image, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
12 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856300 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/?id=4757c… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/51114 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56404 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/51274 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/commit/?id=1e92e… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1455.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027754 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
Date Public
2012-11-05 00:00
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"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:44:44Z",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "52",
"product_status:recommended": "237",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-4433",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-4433.json",
"version": "8"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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