CVE-2012-3236 - Seafaring Usage

Description

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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54246 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-06/0192.html http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/FIT-file-handling-dos.html http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/plug-ins/file-fits/fits-io.c?id=ace45631595e8781a1420842582d67160097163c https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676804 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19482 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1559-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:082 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76658