CVE-2005-3186

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-3186 · Published 18/11/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3186 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting gtk+ (gtk).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.7%, higher than 91.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gtk+ gtk	`= 2.4.0`	No fix yet

Description

Integer overflow in the GTK+ gdk-pixbuf XPM image rendering library in GTK+ 2.4.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XPM file with a number of colors that causes insufficient memory to be allocated, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.8/SCOSA-2006.8.txt
secunia.com/advisories/17522
secunia.com/advisories/17538
secunia.com/advisories/17562
secunia.com/advisories/17588
secunia.com/advisories/17591
secunia.com/advisories/17592
secunia.com/advisories/17594
secunia.com/advisories/17615
secunia.com/advisories/17657
secunia.com/advisories/17710
secunia.com/advisories/17770
secunia.com/advisories/17791
secunia.com/advisories/18509
securityreason.com/securityalert/188
securitytracker.com/id
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-229.pdf

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