Debian DLA-525-1 : gimp security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91831

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a use-after-free vulnerability in the channel and layer properties parsing process in Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in gimp version 2.8.2-2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gimp packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91831

File Name: debian_DLA-525.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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

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

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:debian:debian_linux:gimp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gimp-data, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gimp-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgimp2.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgimp2.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgimp2.0-doc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4994

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