CVE-2011-1178
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 5.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-190
- EPSS score
- 5.3% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1188)
- Published
- June 6, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1188 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gimp / gimp
References
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=a9671395f6573e90316a9d748588c5435216f6ce(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50737(Broken Link)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025586(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:110(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0837.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48057(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689831(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67787(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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