CVE-2011-2896

CVE-2011-2896 is a heap-based buffer overflow in the GIF LZW decompression path (LZWReadByte) affecting the GIF plug-in implementations in GIMP (and related GIF handling in CUPS/PBMPLUS and others). The vulnerability can crash the affected application or, potentially, allow code execution via a c...

CVE-2011-2896

The LZW decompressor in the LWZReadByte function in giftoppm.c in the David Koblas GIF decoder in PBMPLUS, as used in the gifreadlzw function in filter/image-gif.c in CUPS before 1.4.7, the LZWReadByte function in plug-ins/common/file-gif-load.c in GIMP 2.6.11 and earlier, the LZWReadByte functio...

Fedora Core 1 : qt-3.1.2-14.2 (2004-270)

During a security audit, Chris Evans discovered a heap overflow in the BMP image decoder in Qt versions prior to 3.3.3. An attacker could create a carefully crafted BMP file in such a way that it would cause an application linked with Qt to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when the file w...