PT-2013-1158 · Gnu+4 · Gimp+5

Murray Mcallister + 1 · Published 2013-12-03 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2013-1978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GIMP versions 2.6.9 and earlier gimp-debuginfo version 2.2.13

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the read xwd cols function in the X Window Dump (XWD) plug-in, which can be exploited by remote attackers using an X Window System (XWD) image dump with more colors than color map entries, potentially leading to a denial of service (crash) and possibly the execution of arbitrary code. Additionally, multiple vulnerabilities in the gimp-debuginfo package may lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information, and these vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely.

Recommendations For GIMP versions 2.6.9 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.6.9 to resolve the issue. For gimp-debuginfo version 2.2.13, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-06187

BDU:2015-08911

CESA-2013_1778

CVE-2013-1978

DSA-2813-1

MGASA-2013-0365

RHSA-2013:1778

RHSA-2013_1778

Affected Products

Centos

Gimp

Red Hat

Suse

X-Window-System

Gimp-Debuginfo

References · 30

• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06187 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0365.html · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08911 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-1978 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5576 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1913 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1978 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0365 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1978 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1978 · Vendor Advisory