=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1214-1
September 22, 2011

gimp vulnerability
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

GIMP could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted GIF file.

Software Description:
- gimp: The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Details:

Tomas Hoger discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed LZW streams.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image file, an
attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with
the user's privileges.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 11.04:
  gimp                            2.6.11-1ubuntu6.2

Ubuntu 10.10:
  gimp                            2.6.10-1ubuntu3.4

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  gimp                            2.6.8-2ubuntu1.4

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1214-1
  CVE-2011-2896

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.11-1ubuntu6.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.10-1ubuntu3.4
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.8-2ubuntu1.4