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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-3025-1 Moderate: GIMP Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 5, 2016
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Potential GIMP security flaw might lead to system crashes or enable code execution on Ubuntu; updates to rectify the issue have been released.
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:

It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XCF files. If a

user were tricked into opening a specially crafted XCF file, an attacker

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

user's privileges.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  gimp                            2.8.14-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  gimp                            2.8.10-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  gimp                            2.6.12-1ubuntu1.4

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3025-1

CVE-2016-4994

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July 05, 2016

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.8.14-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.8.10-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.12-1ubuntu1.4

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