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Gentoo: GLSA-202309-15 Moderate Severity GIMP Memory Handling Issue

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2007
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Gentoo has published an advisory concerning a vulnerability within GIMP: Mitigating buffer overflow concerns and guidelines for executing software upgrades.
GIMP is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GIMP: Buffer overflow Date: May 07, 2007 Bugs: #176226 ID: 200705-08

Synopsis ======= GIMP is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/gimp < 2.2.14 >= 2.2.14
========== Marsu discovered that the "set_color_table()" function in the SUNRAS plugin is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow.
Impact ===== An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .RAS file, possibly leading to...

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