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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : gimp vulnerability (USN-467-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 28067
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that Gimp did not correctly handle RAS image format color tables. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted RAS file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 28067
File Name: ubuntu_USN-467-1.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/10/2007
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-python, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgimp2.0-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-svg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgimp2.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgimp2.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-helpbrowser
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-2356
BID: 23680