CVE-2016-4994 (GCVE-0-2016-4994)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-07-12 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the xcf_load_image function in app/xcf/xcf-load.c in GIMP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XCF file.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036226 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=e82a… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767873 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91425 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3612 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3025-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2589.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Date Public
2016-06-22 00:00
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- 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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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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