Out-of-bounds read in Gimp - CVE-2017-17784
Published: December 20, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33233
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17784
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to 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. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
Gimp
gimp (Alpine package)
gimp
Fedora
gimp (Alpine package)
gimp
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2017-17784
Update to version 2.9.2.
Gimp - update to 2.9.2
gimp (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.8.22-r2, 2.10.2-r0
gimp - addressed in versions 2.8.22-3.fc26, 2.8.22-3.fc27
gimp (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.8.22-r2, 2.10.2-r0
gimp - addressed in versions 2.8.22-3.fc26, 2.8.22-3.fc27