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Debian: DSA-2426-1 Moderate: GIMP Multiple Buffer Overflow Issues

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Several vulnerabilities have been identified in GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in GIMP, the GNU Image
Manipulation Program.

CVE-2010-4540
Stack-based buffer overflow in the load_preset_response
function in plug-ins/lighting/lighting-ui.c in the "LIGHTING
EFFECTS > LIGHT" plugin allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly
execute arbitrary code via a long Position field in a plugin
configuration file.

CVE-2010-4541
Stack-based buffer overflow in the loadit function in
plug-ins/common/sphere-designer.c in the SPHERE DESIGNER
plugin allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary
code via a long "Number of lights" field in a plugin
configuration file.

CVE-2010-4542
Stack-based buffer overflow in the gfig_read_parameter_gimp_rgb
function in in the GFIG plugin allows user-assisted remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or
possibly execute arbitrary code via a long Foreground f...

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Package: gimp
CVE ID: CVE-2010-4540 CVE-2010-4541 CVE-2010-4542 CVE-2010-4543

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