USN-880-1: GIMP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• gimp -

Details

Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain
malformed BMP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted BMP file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges. (CVE-2009-1570)

Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain
malformed PSD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted PSD file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's
privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10.
(CVE-2009-3909)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• gimp - 2.6.7-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• gimp - 2.6.6-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• gimp - 2.6.1-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• gimp - 2.4.5-1ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-3909
• CVE-2009-1570