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    CVE-2005-2975

    io-xpm.c in the gdk-pixbuf XPM image rendering library in GTK+ before 2.8.7 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted XPM image with a large number of colors.

    Published:Nov 15, 2005
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Nov 18, 2005
    EPSS Score:0.1189
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnome
    Product
    Gdkpixbuf
    Vendor
    Gnome
    Product
    Gtk
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2025-6199 (CVSS 3.3) — A flaw was found in the GIF parser of GdkPixbuf’s LZW decoder. When an invalid symbol is encountered during de…
    CVE-2022-48622 (CVSS 7.8) — In GNOME GdkPixbuf (aka gdk-pixbuf) through 2.42.10, the ANI (Windows animated cursor) decoder encounters heap…
    CVE-2021-44648 (CVSS 8.8) — GNOME gdk-pixbuf 2.42.6 is vulnerable to a heap-buffer overflow vulnerability when decoding the lzw compressed…
    CVE-2005-2976 (CVSS 7.5) — Integer overflow in io-xpm.c in gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0 in GTK+ before 2.8.7 allows attackers to cause a denial of s…
    CVE-2005-3186 (CVSS 7.5) — Integer overflow in the GTK+ gdk-pixbuf XPM image rendering library in GTK+ 2.4.0 allows attackers to execute …
    CVE-2004-0783 (CVSS 7.5) — Stack-based buffer overflow in xpm_extract_color (io-xpm.c) in the XPM image decoder for gtk+ 2.4.4 (gtk2) and…
    CVE-2004-0782 (CVSS 7.5) — Integer overflow in pixbuf_create_from_xpm (io-xpm.c) in the XPM image decoder for gtk+ 2.4.4 (gtk2) and earli…
    CVE-2004-0788 (CVSS 5) — Integer overflow in the ICO image decoder for (1) gdk-pixbuf before 0.22 and (2) gtk2 before 2.2.4 allows remo…
    CVE-2004-0753 (CVSS 5) — The BMP image processor for (1) gdk-pixbuf before 0.22 and (2) gtk2 before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to ca…
    CVE-2004-0111 (CVSS 5) — gdk-pixbuf before 0.20 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed bitmap (BMP) file…

    References

    http://secunia.com/advisories/17522
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17538
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17562
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17588
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17591
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17592
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17594
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17615
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17657
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17710
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17770
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17791
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1015216
    http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-229.pdf
    http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-911
    http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-913
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-14.xml
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:214
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_65_gtk2.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-810.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-811.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428052/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15429
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-216-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2433
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9697
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17522
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17538
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17562
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17588
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17591
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17592
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17594
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17615
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17657
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17710
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17770
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17791
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1015216
    http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-229.pdf
    http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-911
    http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-913
    http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-14.xml
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:214
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_65_gtk2.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-810.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-811.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428052/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15429
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-216-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2433
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9697

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High