Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : gimp vulnerability (USN-2051-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71309

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Murray McAllister discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XWD files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted XWD file, an attacker could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly 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 gimp package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2051-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71309

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2051-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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: 12/9/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1913, CVE-2013-1978

BID: 64098, 64105

USN: 2051-1