CVE-2010-4543

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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.

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/70284
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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