CVE-2011-1782

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-07-27 · 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4543.

Affected products

GIMP: 2.6.11

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/48236
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704512
http://secunia.com/advisories/48236
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704512

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