Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-17789

Title: Gimp RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-17789.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Dec 20, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-17789: In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in read_channel_data in plug-ins/common/file-psp.c.

Impacted Vendors

gimp 1

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/19/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102898 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790849 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00023.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3539-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4077 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/19/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102898 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790849 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00023.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3539-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4077

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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