CVE-2013-1978 (GCVE-0-2013-1978)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-12-12 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 15:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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