Buffer overflow in Gimp

CVE-2011-1782

Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_channel_data function in file-psp.c in the Paint Shop Pro (PSP) plugin in GIMP 2.6.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a PSP_COMP_RLE (aka RLE compression) image file that begins a long run count at the end of the image. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4543.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.034 (87.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gimp — versions 2.6.11
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References