USN-1559-1: GIMP vulnerabilities
10 September 2012
gimp vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
GIMP could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description
- gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Details
Joseph Sheridan discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled certain malformed headers in FIT files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted FIT image file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash. (CVE-2012-3236)
Murray McAllister discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed KiSS palette files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted KiSS palette file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. (CVE-2012-3403)
Matthias Weckbecker discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed GIF image files. 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. (CVE-2012-3481)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- gimp - 2.6.12-1ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 11.10
- gimp - 2.6.11-2ubuntu4.1
- Ubuntu 11.04
- gimp - 2.6.11-1ubuntu6.3
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- gimp - 2.6.8-2ubuntu1.5
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.