CVE-2017-17788: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a stack-based buffer over-read in xcf_load_stream in app/xcf/xcf.c when there is no '\0' character after the version string.

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.