Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4541

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-4541.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Jan 07, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4541: Stack-based buffer overflow in the loadit function in plug-ins/common/sphere-designer.c in the SPHERE DESIGNER 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 "Number of lights" 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.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

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/70281 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-2011-0837.html 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/64581 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/70281 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-2011-0837.html 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/64581

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4541 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 07, 2011 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.