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Fedora 17 : gimp-2.8.2-1.fc17 (2012-12383)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61703

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Among other things this update fixes security and stability issues in various image format loaders. Security issues fixed include CVE-2012-3403 and CVE-2012-3481.

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.0 to GIMP 2.8.2 =================================================

Core :

 - Make tag matching always case-insensitive

 - Let the tile-cache-size default to half the physical memory

GUI :

 - Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog

 - Make sure popup windows appear on top on OSX

 - Allow file opening by dropping to the OSX dock

 - Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items

 - Remove all 'Use GEGL' menu items, they only add bugs and zero function

 - Improve performance of display filters, especially color management

 - Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title

 - Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable

Libgimp :

 - Move gimpdir and thumbnails to proper locations on OSX

 - Implement relocation on OSX

 - Allow to use $(gimp_installation_dir) in config files

Plug-ins :

 - Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults

 - Revive the page setup dialog on Windows

Source and build system :

 - Add Windows installer infrastructure

 - Add infrastructure to build GIMP.app on OSX

General :

 - Lots of bug fixes

 - List of translation updates

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gimp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839020

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847303

http://www.nessus.org/u?5dab0380

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61703

File Name: fedora_2012-12383.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gimp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3403, CVE-2012-3481

BID: 55101

FEDORA: 2012-12383