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DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2896

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2896 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

The LZW decompressor in the LWZReadByte function in giftoppm.c in the David Koblas GIF decoder in PBMPLUS, as used in the gif_read_lzw 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 function in img/gifread.c in XPCE in SWI-Prolog 5.10.4 and earlier, and other products, does not properly handle code words that are absent from the decompression table when encountered, which allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a crafted compressed stream, a related issue to CVE-2006-1168 and CVE-2011-2895.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11cups0, 0, 0
Debian:13cups0, 0, 0
Debian:12cups0, 0, 0
Debian:11gimp0, 0, 0
Debian:13gimp0, 0, 0
Debian:14cups0, 0, 0
Debian:12gimp0, 0, 0
Debian:14gimp0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Aug 19, 2011 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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