Executive Summary

Summary
Title GIMP vulnerabilities
Informations
NameUSN-880-1First vendor Publication2010-01-07
VendorUbuntuLast vendor Modification2010-01-07
Severity (Vendor) N/ARevisionN/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score9.3Attack RangeNetwork
Cvss Impact Score10Attack ComplexityMedium
Cvss Expoit Score8.6AuthentificationNone Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 9.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
gimp 2.4.5-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 8.10:
gimp 2.6.1-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 9.04:
gimp 2.6.6-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.10:
gimp 2.6.7-1ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

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)


Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-880-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

idName
CWE-189Numeric Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8290
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8290
Title: An Integer Overflow Vulnerability in GIMP(1) May Lead to Denial of Service (DoS) or Execution of Arbitrary Code
Description: Integer overflow in the ReadImage function in plug-ins/file-bmp/bmp-read.c in GIMP 2.6.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BMP file with crafted width and height values that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-1570
Version: 1
Platform(s): Sun Solaris 10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

idDescription
60178GIMP plug-ins/file-psd/psd-load.c read_channel_data() Function PSD Image Hand...
59930GIMP plug-ins/file-bmp/bmp-read.c ReadImage() Function Overflow