USN-3025-1: GIMP vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3025-1

5th July, 2016

gimp vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• 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

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.

Update instructions

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

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

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2016-4994

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/29LNhLI