RHEL 9 : gimp (RHSA-2022:7978)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167525

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for gimp.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7978 advisory.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program. GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.

Security Fix(es):

* gimp: buffer overflow through a crafted XCF file (CVE-2022-30067)

* gimp: unhandled exception via a crafted XCF file may lead to DoS (CVE-2022-32990)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL gimp package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7978.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1f1eb6cc

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c324257

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2087591

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2103202

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7978

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167525

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7978.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32990

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30067, CVE-2022-32990

CWE: 120, 125

RHSA: 2022:7978