CVE-2012-3236: Gimp

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 10.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gimp Gimp: before 2.9.2 (fixed in 2.9.2)

Published 2012-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.