CVE-2011-1178: Gimp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in the load_image function in file-pcx.c in the Personal Computer Exchange (PCX) plugin in GIMP 2.6.x and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PCX image that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Gimp Gimp: up to and including 2.7.0

Published 2011-06-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.