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Debian Jessie DSA-3612-1 Critical: GIMP Use-After-Free Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2016
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Debian Security Notice DSA-3613-1 addresses the vulnerability in LibreOffice pertaining to an integer overflow and offers guidance on updates.
Shmuel H discovered that GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability in the channel and layer properties parsing process when loading a XCF...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gimp packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: gimp
CVE ID: CVE-2016-4994

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