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<glsa id="200607-08">
  <title>GIMP: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    GIMP is prone to a buffer overflow which may lead to the execution of
    arbitrary code when loading specially crafted XCF files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gimp</product>
  <announced>July 23, 2006</announced>
  <revised>July 24, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>139524</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-gfx/gimp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.2.12</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.2.12</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. XCF is the native image
    file format used by GIMP.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Henning Makholm discovered that the "xcf_load_vector()" function is
    vulnerable to a buffer overflow when loading a XCF file with a large
    "num_axes" value.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code by
    enticing a user to open a specially crafted XCF file.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All GIMP users should update to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3404">CVE-2006-3404</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:07:39 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:38:18 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:27:03 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>