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Vulnerability details: VCID-a1hg-12wv-a7h5
Vulnerability ID VCID-a1hg-12wv-a7h5
Aliases CVE-2012-4202
Summary Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a buffer overflow while rendering GIF format images. This issue is potentially exploitable and could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.03493 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-4202
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-92
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-4202.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-4202
877615 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877615
CVE-2012-4202 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4202
GLSA-201301-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01
mfsa2012-92 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-92
RHSA-2012:1482 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1482
RHSA-2012:1483 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1483
USN-1636-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1636-1/
USN-1638-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1638-1/
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.87797
EPSS Score 0.03493
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:27:26.579425+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2012/mfsa2012-92.md 38.6.0