444280 – (CVE-2012-5576) <media-gfx/gimp-2.8.2-r1: memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2012-5576)

Bug 444280 (CVE-2012-5576) - <media-gfx/gimp-2.8.2-r1: memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2012-5576)

Summary: <media-gfx/gimp-2.8.2-r1: memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2012-5576)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2012-5576

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa]
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Depends on:	481736
Blocks:
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Reported:	2012-11-22 10:26 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified:	2013-11-10 15:14 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-11-22 10:26:19 UTC

From http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/21/2 :

Name: Gimp memory corruption vulnerability
Software: GIMP 2.8.2
Software link: http://www.gimp.org/ <http://plib.sourceforge.net/>
Vulnerability Type: Memory Corruption

Description:

GIMP 2.8.2 is vulnerable to memory corruption when reading XWD files, which
could lead even to arbitrary code execution.

Upstream fix:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=2873262fccba12af144ed96ed91be144d92ff2e1
(fixed in master and gimp-2-8)

References:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687392

Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2012-11-25 19:39:11 UTC

+*gimp-2.8.2-r1 (25 Nov 2012)
+
+  25 Nov 2012; Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> +gimp-2.8.2-r1.ebuild,
+  +files/gimp-2.8.2-xwd-file-security.patch:
+  Apply upstream security patch on reading XWD files (bug #444280)
+

Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2012-12-23 00:44:11 UTC

CVE-2012-5576 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5576):
  Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in file-xwd.c in the X Window Dump
  (XWD) plug-in in GIMP 2.8.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large (1) red, (2)
  green, or (3) blue color mask in an XWD file.

Comment 3 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-02 18:52:40 UTC

Thanks, Sebastian. Is 2.6.12 affected? And should we begin stabilization of 2.8.2-r1?

Comment 4 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-11 03:43:07 UTC

Arches, please test and stabilize:
=media-gfx/gimp-2.8.2
Target arches: alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86

Comment 5 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2013-10-07 10:10:29 UTC

Added to existing GLSA draft

Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2013-11-10 15:14:23 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201311-05 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-05.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).