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CVE-2011-1178
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…
Medium6.8EPSS 5.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.4% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- GLSA-201209-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- gimp-pcximage-bo(67787) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0837 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=a9671395f6573e90316a9d748588c5435216f6ce (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:0838 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:110 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 1025586 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 48057 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 50737 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689831 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .