GIMP could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Joseph Sheridan discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled certain malformed headers in FIT files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted FIT image file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash. (CVE-2012-3236)
10 September 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
GIMP could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Joseph Sheridan discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled certain malformed headers in FIT files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted FIT image file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash. (CVE-2012-3236)
Murray McAllister discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed KiSS palette files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted KiSS palette file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. (CVE-2012-3403)
Matthias Weckbecker discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed GIF image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. (CVE-2012-3481)
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.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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