Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed BMP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. (CVE-2009-1570)
Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed PSD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PSD file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-3909)
7 January 2010
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed BMP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. (CVE-2009-1570)
Stefan Cornelius discovered that GIMP did not correctly handle certain malformed PSD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PSD file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-3909)
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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