CVE-2006-3404

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the xcf_load_vector function in app/xcf/xcf-load.c for gimp before 2.2.12 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XCF file with a large num_axes value in the VECTORS property.

Affected products

GIMP: before 2.2.12 — fixed in 2.2.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GIMP 2.2.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377049
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346742
http://secunia.com/advisories/20976
http://secunia.com/advisories/20979
http://secunia.com/advisories/21069
http://secunia.com/advisories/21104
http://secunia.com/advisories/21170
http://secunia.com/advisories/21182
http://secunia.com/advisories/21198
http://secunia.com/advisories/21459
http://secunia.com/advisories/23044
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-08.xml

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