CVE-2013-1978: Gimp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gimp Gimp: up to and including 2.6.9
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2013-12-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.