USN-7209-1: GIMP DDS Plugin vulnerabilities

16 January 2025

The GIMP DDS Plugin could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • gimp-dds - DDS (DirectDraw Surface) plugin for GIMP

Details

Jacob Boerema discovered that the GIMP DDS Plugin incorrectly
processed DDS files due to a memory issue. An attacker could
exploit this through a specifically crafted DDS file to cause
GIMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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