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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2051-1
December 09, 2013

gimp vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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.

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.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2051-1
CVE-2013-1913, CVE-2013-1978

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.8.6-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.8.4-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.8.2-1ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.12-1ubuntu1.3

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