CVE-2005-3186

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the GTK+ gdk-pixbuf XPM image rendering library in GTK+ 2.4.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XPM file with a number of colors that causes insufficient memory to be allocated, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

GNOME Gdkpixbuf: all versions
Gtk+: 2.4.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17522
http://secunia.com/advisories/17538
http://secunia.com/advisories/17562
http://secunia.com/advisories/17588
http://secunia.com/advisories/17591
http://secunia.com/advisories/17592
http://secunia.com/advisories/17594
http://secunia.com/advisories/17615
http://secunia.com/advisories/17657
http://secunia.com/advisories/17710
http://secunia.com/advisories/17770

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