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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Gimp Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28114

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28114/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Gimp, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA14908
SA25012
SA25677

The vulnerabilities are reported in Solaris 10 for the SPARC
platform, Solaris 9 with JDS release 2 installed, and Solaris 10 for
the x86 platform. Reportedly, Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 on the SPARC
platform, and Solaris 8 on the x86 platform are not affected.

SOLUTION:
Open images from trusted sources only.

The vendor also recommends to enable the "noexec_user_stack" option.
See the vendor's advisory for details.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103170-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14908:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14908/

SA25012:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25012/

SA25677:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25677/

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