Use-after-free vulnerability in the xcf_load_image function in app/xcf/xcf-load.c in GIMP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servi

Affected versions

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• gimp gimpbefore 2.8.18

Package-level exposure

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2023-44443GIMP PSP File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  59Plan
• CVE-2012-2763Buffer overflow in the readstr_upto function in plug-ins/script-fu/tinyscheme/scheme.c in GIMP 2.6.12 and earlier, and possibly 2.6.13, allo
  55Plan
• CVE-2023-44442GIMP PSD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  49Plan
• CVE-2023-44444GIMP PSP File Parsing Off-By-One Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  48Plan
• CVE-2025-5473GIMP ICO File Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  42Plan
• CVE-2009-3909Integer overflow in the read_channel_data function in plug-ins/file-psd/psd-load.c in GIMP 2.6.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arb
  40Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1free(dev->buf);2/* ... another thread is still running ... */3process(dev->buf);

1lock(&dev->lock);2free(dev->buf);3dev->buf = NULL;4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

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