CVE-2011-2896 describes a vulnerability in the LZW decompressor used by various products, including CUPS, GIMP, and SWI-Prolog. This flaw, stemming from improper handling of absent code words in the decompression table, can lead to an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow when processing a crafted compressed stream. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with high complexity, potentially resulting in partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, and possibly arbitrary code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:swi-prolog:swi-prolog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.6.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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