CVE-2010-4541

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the loadit function in plug-ins/common/sphere-designer.c in the SPHERE DESIGNER plugin in GIMP 2.6.11 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long "Number of lights" field in a plugin configuration file. NOTE: it may be uncommon to obtain a GIMP plugin configuration file from an untrusted source that is separate from the distribution of the plugin itself.

Affected products

GIMP: 2.6.11

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608497
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/04/7
http://osvdb.org/70281
http://secunia.com/advisories/42771
http://secunia.com/advisories/44750
http://secunia.com/advisories/48236
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103

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