DSA-2813-1 gimp -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2813-1 gimp -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

09 Dec 2013

Affected Packages:

gimp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1913, CVE-2013-1978.

More information:

Murray McAllister discovered multiple integer and buffer overflows in the XWD plugin in Gimp, which can result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.10-1+squeeze4. This update also fixes CVE-2012-3403, CVE-2012-3481 and CVE-2012-5576.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.2-2+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gimp packages.