RHEL 9 : gimp (RHSA-2025:3629)

high Nessus Plugin ID 234275

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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-2025:3629 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: dds buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2023-44441)

* gimp: PSD buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2023-44442)

* gimp: psp integer overflow RCE (CVE-2023-44443)

* gimp: psp off-by-one RCE (CVE-2023-44444)

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.

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-2025:3629.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 234275

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3629.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/13/2025

Updated: 4/13/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44444

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp

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: 4/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44441, CVE-2023-44442, CVE-2023-44443, CVE-2023-44444

CWE: 122, 190, 193

RHSA: 2025:3629

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