Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1782

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1782.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Jul 27, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.53%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1782: 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4543.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/48236 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704512 http://secunia.com/advisories/48236 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:103 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704512

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-2011-1782 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.

July 27, 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.