Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4540

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-4540.

CWE Category CWE-787
Published Date Jan 07, 2011
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.89%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4540: Stack-based buffer overflow in the load_preset_response function in plug-ins/lighting/lighting-ui.c in the "LIGHTING EFFECTS > LIGHT" plugin in GIMP 2.6.11 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long Position field in a plugin configuration file. NOTE: it may be uncommon to obtain a GIMP plugin configuration file from an untrusted source that is separate from the distribution of the plugin itself. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

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gimp 1
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gnu 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608497 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/04/7 http://osvdb.org/70282 http://secunia.com/advisories/42771 http://secunia.com/advisories/44750 http://secunia.com/advisories/48236 http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0839.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0016 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666793 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64582 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608497 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/03/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/04/7 http://osvdb.org/70282 http://secunia.com/advisories/42771 http://secunia.com/advisories/44750 http://secunia.com/advisories/48236 http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0839.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0016 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666793 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64582
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4540 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.