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RHEL 4 : gimp (RHSA-2006:0598)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22071

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated gimp packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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

Henning Makholm discovered a buffer overflow bug in The GIMP XCF file loader. An attacker could create a carefully crafted image that could execute arbitrary code if opened by a victim. (CVE-2006-3404)

Please note that this issue did not affect the gimp packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, or 3.

Users of The GIMP should update to these erratum packages which contain a backported fix to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected gimp and / or gimp-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-3404

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0598

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22071

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2006-0598.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2006

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3404

BID: 18877

RHSA: 2006:0598