Henning Makholm discovered that gimp did not sufficiently validate the ‘num_axes’ parameter in XCF files. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted XCF file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
10 July 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Henning Makholm discovered that gimp did not sufficiently validate the ‘num_axes’ parameter in XCF files. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted XCF file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
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 upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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