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CVE-2012-4433

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4433 describes multiple integer overflows in GEGL 0.2.0, specifically within the ppm-load.c component, affecting the handling of Portable Pixel Map (PPM) images. Attackers can exploit this by providing large width or height values in a PPM image, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and could result in a denial of service (application crash) or potentially arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gegl:gegl:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1326 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: gegl-0:0.1.2-4.el6_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4433Moderate

gegl: Integer overflow, leading to heap-based buffer overflow by parsing PPM image headers

Nov 5, 2012

References

git.gnome.org / browse/gegl/commit
git.gnome.org / browse/gegl/commit
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00054.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1455.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/51114
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51274
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79822
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/06/1
securityfocus.com / bid/56404
securitytracker.com / id