Gimp psp graphic boundary Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
GIMP 2.6.7
GIMP 2.6.6
GIMP 2.6.11
GIMP 2.4.6
GIMP 2.3.9
GIMP 2.3.14
GIMP 2.3.10
GIMP 2.2.8
GIMP 2.2.6
GIMP 2.2.4
GIMP 2.2.17
GIMP 2.2.16
GIMP 2.2.15
GIMP 2.2.14
GIMP 2.2.12
GIMP 2.2.11
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 48277
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2011-1782

GIMP is short for GNU Image Manipulation Program (GNU Image Processing Program) and is a cross-platform Image processing software.

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in GIMP's implementation of specially crafted PSP graphics files. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in affected applications.

<* Source: Nils Philippsen

Link: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1147-1/

Https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? Id = 704512
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

GIMP
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.gimp.org/