CVE-2011-1178

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the load_image function in file-pcx.c in the Personal Computer Exchange (PCX) plugin in GIMP 2.6.x and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PCX image that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

GIMP: through 2.7.0

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=a9671395f6573e90316a9d748588c5435216f6ce
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025586
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:110
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0837.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48057
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689831
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67787
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=a9671395f6573e90316a9d748588c5435216f6ce
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737

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