CVE-2009-1570

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the ReadImage function in plug-ins/file-bmp/bmp-read.c in GIMP 2.6.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BMP file with crafted width and height values that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

GIMP: 2.6.7

References

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gimp/commit/?h=gimp-2-6&id=df2b0aca2e7cdb95ebfd3454c65aaba0a83e9bbe
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37232
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-42/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/59930
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0837.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507813/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37006
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3228

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