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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2896 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://cups.org/str.php?L3867 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=376ad788c1a1c31d40f18494889c383f6909ebfc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/064600.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/064873.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065527.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065539.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065550.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065651.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1180.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1181.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/45621 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/45900 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/45945 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/45948 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/46024 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48236 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48308 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50737 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-23.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2354 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2426 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:146 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:167 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/10/10 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1635.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49148 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025929 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.swi-prolog.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7#c4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1207-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1214-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727800 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730338 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-2896
NVD Published Date:
08/19/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/28/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.