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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS GIMP Security Advisory USN-8075-1 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2026
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple security issues fixed in GIMP impacting Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, 20.04, 18.04, and 16.04 LTS releases. Updates recommended.
Several security issues were fixed in GIMP.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in GIMP.

Software Description:

- gimp: GNU Image Manipulation Program

Details:

Michael Randrianantenaina discovered that calculating the linear size of a

DDS file could overflow on 32-bit systems. An attacker could possibly use

this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This

issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.04

LTS. (CVE-2025-2760)

Michael Randrianantenaina discovered that GIMP did not perform any bounds

checking when calculating an offset into XWD Colormaps. An attacker could

possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary

code. (CVE-2025-10934)

It was discovered that GIMP's PNM loader did not sufficiently check that

the image could fit within the allocated memory, which could cause GIMP to

read or write out-of-bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to

cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-14422)

It was discovered that m...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  gimp                            2.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libgimp2.0t64                   2.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  gimp                            2.10.30-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libgimp2.0                      2.10.30-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  gimp                            2.10.18-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libgimp2.0                      2.10.18-1ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  gimp                            2.8.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libgimp2.0                      2.8.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  gimp                            2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libgimp2.0                      2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8075-1

CVE-2025-10934, CVE-2025-14422, CVE-2025-2760, CVE-2025-48797,

CVE-2025-48798

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