CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1978
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_xwd_cols function in file-xwd.c in the X Window Dump (XWD) plug-in in GIMP 2.6.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an X Window System (XWD) image dump with more colors than color map entries.
Affected configurations
• gimp gimp (<= 2.6.9)
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64098 Broken Link, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953902 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64098 Broken Link, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953902 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01 Third Party Advisory