USN-312-1: gimp vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10
• Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Henning Makholm discovered that gimp did not sufficiently validate the
'num_axes' parameter in XCF files. By tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted XCF file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this
to 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 6.06

• libgimp2.0 - 2.2.11-1ubuntu3.1
• gimp - 2.2.11-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 5.10

• libgimp2.0 - 2.2.8-2ubuntu6.1
• gimp - 2.2.8-2ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 5.04

• libgimp2.0 - 2.2.2-1ubuntu5.1
• gimp - 2.2.2-1ubuntu5.1

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

References

• CVE-2006-3404