Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
gimp on Ubuntu 13.10 ,
Ubuntu 13.04 ,
Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1913, CVE-2013-1978 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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