USN-880-1: GIMP vulnerabilities

7 January 2010

GIMP vulnerabilities

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Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain
malformed BMP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted BMP file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges. (CVE-2009-1570)

Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain
malformed PSD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted PSD file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10.
(CVE-2009-3909)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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