Ubuntu: 2051-1 Moderate: GIMP Crash and Code Execution Threat

ubuntu

December 9, 2013

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

Summary

GIMP could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- gimp: The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Details:

Murray McAllister discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XWD

files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted XWD file, an

attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with

the user's privileges.

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution ubuntu gimp crash risk

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
  gimp                            2.8.6-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
  gimp                            2.8.4-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  gimp                            2.8.2-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  gimp                            2.6.12-1ubuntu1.3

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