Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-480-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Stefan Cornelius discovered that Gimp could miscalculate the size of heap buffers when processing PSD images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PSD file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Affected
gimp vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-2949 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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