GIMP could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
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)
13 April 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
GIMP could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
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)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart GIMP to make all the necessary changes.
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