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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : gimp vulnerabilities (USN-880-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43825

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

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).

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/880-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43825

File Name: ubuntu_USN-880-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-gnomevfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgimp2.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-libcurl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-python, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgimp2.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp-data, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgimp2.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1570, CVE-2009-3909

BID: 37006, 37040

CWE: 189

USN: 880-1