National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3126
Original release date:06/08/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Gimp 2.3.14 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ICO file with an InfoHeader containing a Height of zero, a similar issue to CVE-2007-2237.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (06/29/2007)
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Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a user application such as GIMP to be a security issue.
- Official Statement from Mandriva (09/17/2007)
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Mandriva does not consider a user-assisted crash of an end-user application such as the GIMP to be a security issue.
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070607 Re: CSIS Advisory: Microsoft GDI+ Integer division by zero flaw handling .ICO files
External Source: XF
Name: gimp-ico-file-dos(34789)