CVE-2017-17784: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in load_image in plug-ins/common/file-gbr.c in the gbr import parser, related to mishandling of UTF-8 data.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Gimp Gimp: version 2.8.22 only

Published 2017-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.