Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1109-1

13th April, 2011

gimp vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 10.10



• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 9.10



• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

GIMP could be made to 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 data in certain
plugin configuration files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted plugin configuration file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash,
or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. The default
compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a
denial of service. (CVE-2010-4540, CVE-2010-4541, CVE-2010-4542)

It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed PSP image files.
If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PSP image file, an
attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with
the user's privileges. (CVE-2010-4543)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.10:

gimp

2.6.10-1ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

gimp

2.6.8-2ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 9.10:

gimp

2.6.7-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:

gimp

2.4.5-1ubuntu2.3

After a standard system update you need to restart GIMP to make all the
necessary changes.

References

CVE-2010-4540,

CVE-2010-4541,

CVE-2010-4542,

CVE-2010-4543