Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4543

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2010-4543

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Jan 07, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

22.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4543: Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_channel_data function in file-psp.c in the Paint Shop Pro (PSP) plugin in GIMP 2.6.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a PSP_COMP_RLE (aka RLE compression) image file that begins a long run count at the end of the image. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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/70284 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 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/70284 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4543 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35162

View Code

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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.