Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1178

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1178.

CWE Category CWE-190

Published Date Jun 06, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.21%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1178: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=a9671395f6573e90316a9d748588c5435216f6ce http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1025586 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:110 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0837.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48057 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689831 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67787 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=a9671395f6573e90316a9d748588c5435216f6ce http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1025586 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:110 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0837.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0838.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48057 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689831 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67787

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-2011-1178 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.

June 06, 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.