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Red Hat: RHSA-2016-2589-02 Moderate: GIMP Use-After-Free Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2016
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The latest patch from Red Hat resolves several security concerns in GIMP, mitigating use-after-free flaws and improving application resilience.
An update for gimp and gimp-help is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program. GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: gimp (2.8.16), gimp-help (2.8.2). (BZ#1298226, BZ#1370595)
Security Fix(es):
* Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities were found in GIMP in the channel and layer properties parsing process when loading XCF files. An attacker could create a specially crafted XCF file which could cause GIMP to crash. (CVE-2016-4994)
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix moderate impact image manipulation gimp use-after-free

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4994 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.3_Release_Notes/index.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: gimp-2.8.16-3.el7.src.rpm gimp-help-2.8.2-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: gimp-help-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: gimp-2.8.16-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gimp-debuginfo-2.8.16-3.el7.i686.rpm gimp-debuginfo-2.8.16-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gimp-libs-2.8.16-3.el7.i686.rpm gimp-libs-2.8.16-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: gimp-help-ca-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-da-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-de-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-el-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-en_GB-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-es-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-fr-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-it-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-ja-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-ko-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-nl-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-nn-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-pt_BR-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-ru-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-sl-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-sv-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm gimp-help-zh_CN-2.8.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: gimp-debuginfo-2.8.16-3.el7.i686.rpm gimp-debuginfo-2.8.16-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gimp-devel-2.8.16-3.el7.i686.rpm gimp-devel-2.8.16-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gimp-devel-tools-2.8.16-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: gimp-2.8.16-3.el7.src.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2589-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2589.html
Issue date: 2016-11-03

Topic

An update for gimp and gimp-help is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix moderate impact image manipulation gimp use-after-free

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1298226 - rebase the gimp to the latest stable release

1348617 - CVE-2016-4994 gimp: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in the channel and layer properties parsing process

1370595 - Rebase gimp-help to current upstream/Fedora version 2.8.2

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