1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1214-1

USN-1214-1: GIMP vulnerability

Publication date

22 September 2011

Overview

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

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.

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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
11.04 natty gimp –  2.6.11-1ubuntu6.2
10.10 maverick gimp –  2.6.10-1ubuntu3.4
10.04 lucid gimp –  2.6.8-2ubuntu1.4

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