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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3612-1 gimp -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Jul 2016

Affected Packages:

gimp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 828179.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4994.

More information:

Shmuel H discovered that GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability in the channel and layer properties parsing process when loading a XCF file. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running GIMP if a specially crafted XCF file is processed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gimp packages.