CVE-2009-0581: Gimp

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) before 1.18beta2, as used in Firefox 3.1beta, OpenJDK, and GIMP, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted image file.

Affected products

• Gimp Gimp: before 2.9.2 (fixed in 2.9.2)
• Littlecms Little CMS: up to and including 1.17
• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.1 only
• Oracle Openjdk: up to and including 7

Published 2009-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.