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Ubuntu 11.04 USN-1214-1 Important GIMP Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2011
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A critical vulnerability in GIMP on Ubuntu systems poses major risks. Malicious files can trigger exploits, compromising user data and system integrity
GIMP could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted GIF file.

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.

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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

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September 22, 2011

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Topics Covered

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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

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