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Gentoo: GLSA 200607-08:02 Normal: GIMP Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2006
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A security vulnerability affecting GIMP has been detailed in Gentoo security announcement GLSA 202310-09:04, with guidance for applying necessary updates.
The "unaffected" version was incorrectly set to 1.2.12 in the initial advisory, the correct "unaffected" version is 2.2.12

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [ERRATA UPDATE] GLSA 200607-08:02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GIMP: Buffer overflow Date: July 23, 2006 Updated: July 24, 2006 Bugs: #139524 ID: 200607-08:02

Errata ===== The "unaffected" version was incorrectly set to 1.2.12 in the initial advisory, the correct "unaffected" version is 2.2.12.
The corrected sections appear below.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/gimp < 2.2.12 >= 2.2.12
Resolution ========= All GIMP users should update to the latest stable version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12"
Availability =========== This GLS...

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