1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200607-08 / gimp |
| Release Date | July 23, 2006 |
| Latest Revision | July 24, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| media-gfx/gimp | < 2.2.12 | >= 2.2.12 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #139524
GIMP is prone to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code when loading specially crafted XCF files.
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. XCF is the native image file format used by GIMP.
Henning Makholm discovered that the "xcf_load_vector()" function is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when loading a XCF file with a large "num_axes" value.
An attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to open a specially crafted XCF file.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All GIMP users should update to the latest stable version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12" |