USN-1214-1: GIMP vulnerability

22 September 2011

GIMP could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted GIF file.

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Releases

Packages

  • gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Details

Tomas Hoger discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed LZW streams.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image file, an
attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with
the user's privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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