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CVE-2013-1978 (GCVE-0-2013-1978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-12 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:20
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_xwd_cols function in file-xwd.c in the X Window Dump (XWD) plug-in in GIMP 2.6.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an X Window System (XWD) image dump with more colors than color map entries.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64098 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1778.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953902 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2813 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2051-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2013-12-03 00:00
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