========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1214-1 September 22, 2011 gimp vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 11.04 - Ubuntu 10.10 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Summary: GIMP could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted GIF file. Software Description: - gimp: The GNU Image Manipulation Program Details: Tomas Hoger discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed LZW streams. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 11.04: gimp 2.6.11-1ubuntu6.2 Ubuntu 10.10: gimp 2.6.10-1ubuntu3.4 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: gimp 2.6.8-2ubuntu1.4 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1214-1 CVE-2011-2896 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.11-1ubuntu6.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.10-1ubuntu3.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/2.6.8-2ubuntu1.4