Issued:

2012-08-20

Updated:

2012-08-20

RHSA-2012:1181 - Moderate: gimp security update

Synopsis

Moderate: gimp security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated gimp packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program.

Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, were found in the GIMP's Adobe Photoshop (PSD) image file plug-in. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PSD image file that, when opened, could cause the PSD plug-in to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the GIMP. (CVE-2009-3909, CVE-2012-3402)

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the GIMP's GIF image format plug-in. An attacker could create a specially-crafted GIF image file that, when opened, could cause the GIF plug-in to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the GIMP. (CVE-2012-3481)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) decompression algorithm implementation used by the GIMP's GIF image format plug-in. An attacker could create a specially-crafted GIF image file that, when opened, could cause the GIF plug-in to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the GIMP. (CVE-2011-2896)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the GIMP's KiSS CEL file format plug-in. An attacker could create a specially-crafted KiSS palette file that, when opened, could cause the CEL plug-in to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the GIMP. (CVE-2012-3403)

Red Hat would like to thank Secunia Research for reporting CVE-2009-3909, and Matthias Weckbecker of the SUSE Security Team for reporting CVE-2012-3481.

Users of the GIMP are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The GIMP must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.i386.rpm
• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390x.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.i386.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.x86_64.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc.rpm
• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc.rpm
• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390x.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390.rpm
• gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390x.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.x86_64.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.i386.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc64.rpm
• gimp-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ia64.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ia64.rpm
• gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.src.rpm
• gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.x86_64.rpm
• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc64.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc64.rpm
• gimp-libs-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.s390x.rpm
• gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ppc.rpm
• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.x86_64.rpm
• gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.i386.rpm
• gimp-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ia64.rpm
• gimp-devel-2.2.13-2.0.7.el5_8.5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2011-2896
• CVE-2012-3403
• CVE-2012-3481
• CVE-2012-3402
• CVE-2009-3909

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

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