USN-480-1: Gimp vulnerability

4 July 2007

Gimp vulnerability

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Details

Stefan Cornelius discovered that Gimp could miscalculate the size of heap
buffers when processing PSD images. By tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted PSD file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to
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 7.04
  • gimp - 2.2.13-1ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu 6.10
  • gimp - 2.2.13-1ubuntu3.2
Ubuntu 6.06
  • gimp - 2.2.11-1ubuntu3.3

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

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