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gimp: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):gimp CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3404
Created:July 10, 2006 Updated:July 27, 2006
Description: Henning Makholm discovered that gimp did not sufficiently validate the 'num_axes' parameter in XCF files. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted XCF file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2006-207-03 2006-07-27
rPath rPSA-2006-0135-1 2006-07-24
Gentoo 200607-08:02 2006-07-23
Gentoo 200607-08 2006-07-23
Gentoo 200607-08:02 2006-07-23
Debian DSA-1116-1 2006-07-21
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:127 2006-07-18
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0598-01 2006-07-18
Fedora FEDORA-2006-795 2006-07-11
Fedora FEDORA-2006-794 2006-07-11
Ubuntu USN-312-1 2006-07-10
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