VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6470

critical
Published 2013-01-02 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Opera before 12.12 does not properly allocate memory for GIF images, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory overwrite) via a malformed image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1038/

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
operaopera_browser{"endIncluding":"12.11"}
operaopera_browser1.00
operaopera_browser2.00
operaopera_browser2.10
operaopera_browser2.12
operaopera_browser3.00
operaopera_browser3.10
operaopera_browser3.21
operaopera_browser3.50
operaopera_browser3.51
operaopera_browser3.60
operaopera_browser3.61
operaopera_browser3.62
operaopera_browser4.00
operaopera_browser4.01
operaopera_browser4.02
operaopera_browser5.0
operaopera_browser5.02
operaopera_browser5.10
operaopera_browser5.11
operaopera_browser5.12
operaopera_browser6.0
operaopera_browser6.1
operaopera_browser6.01
operaopera_browser6.02
operaopera_browser6.03
operaopera_browser6.04
operaopera_browser6.05
operaopera_browser6.06
operaopera_browser6.11
operaopera_browser6.12
operaopera_browser7.0
operaopera_browser7.01
operaopera_browser7.02
operaopera_browser7.03
operaopera_browser7.10
operaopera_browser7.11
operaopera_browser7.20
operaopera_browser7.21
operaopera_browser7.22
operaopera_browser7.23
operaopera_browser7.50
operaopera_browser7.51
operaopera_browser7.52
operaopera_browser7.53
operaopera_browser7.54
operaopera_browser7.60
operaopera_browser8.0
operaopera_browser8.01
operaopera_browser8.02
operaopera_browser8.50
operaopera_browser8.51
operaopera_browser8.52
operaopera_browser8.53
operaopera_browser8.54
operaopera_browser9.0
operaopera_browser9.01
operaopera_browser9.02
operaopera_browser9.10
operaopera_browser9.12
operaopera_browser9.20
operaopera_browser9.21
operaopera_browser9.22
operaopera_browser9.23
operaopera_browser9.24
operaopera_browser9.25
operaopera_browser9.26
operaopera_browser9.27
operaopera_browser9.50
operaopera_browser9.51
operaopera_browser9.52
operaopera_browser9.60
operaopera_browser9.61
operaopera_browser9.62
operaopera_browser9.63
operaopera_browser9.64
operaopera_browser10.00
operaopera_browser10.01
operaopera_browser10.10
operaopera_browser10.11
operaopera_browser10.20
operaopera_browser10.50
operaopera_browser10.51
operaopera_browser10.52
operaopera_browser10.53
operaopera_browser10.54
operaopera_browser10.60
operaopera_browser10.61
operaopera_browser10.62
operaopera_browser10.63
operaopera_browser11.00
operaopera_browser11.01
operaopera_browser11.10
operaopera_browser11.11
operaopera_browser11.50
operaopera_browser11.51
operaopera_browser11.52
operaopera_browser11.52.1100
operaopera_browser11.60
operaopera_browser11.61
operaopera_browser11.62
operaopera_browser11.64
operaopera_browser11.65
operaopera_browser11.66
operaopera_browser12.00
operaopera_browser12.01
operaopera_browser12.02
operaopera_browser12.10

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.