CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-2975

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in the gdk-pixbuf library of GTK+ before version 2.8.7 allows an attacker to cause an infinite loop via a crafted XPM image with a large number of colors, leading to a denial of service (DoS).

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash applications using GTK+ by providing a specially crafted image file, disrupting system operations.

Recommendation

Upgrade GTK+ to version 2.8.7 or later, which includes a fix that prevents the infinite loop when processing XPM images.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS