Vulnerability of GIMP: buffer overflow via FLI

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via FLI of GIMP, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.

Vulnerable systems: Debian, Fedora, GIMP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.

Severity of this threat: 2/4.

Creation date: 20/12/2017.

Références of this weakness: 739133, CVE-2017-17785, DLA-1220-1, DSA-4077-1, FEDORA-2018-67b75f73fa, FEDORA-2018-ccef1ced42, FLIMP, SUSE-SU-2020:0601-1, USN-3539-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-24824.

Description of the vulnerability

An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via FLI of GIMP, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.
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This computer vulnerability impacts software or systems such as Debian, Fedora, GIMP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.

Our Vigil@nce team determined that the severity of this weakness bulletin is medium.

The trust level is of type confirmed by the editor, with an origin of document.

A proof of concept or an attack tool is available, so your teams have to process this alert. An attacker with a technician ability can exploit this weakness.

Solutions for this threat

GIMP: patch for FLI.
A patch is indicated in information sources.

Debian 7: new gimp packages.
New packages are available:
Debian 7: gimp 2.8.2-2+deb7u3

Debian 8/9: new gimp packages.
New packages are available:
Debian 8: gimp 2.8.14-1+deb8u2
Debian 9: gimp 2.8.18-1+deb9u1

Fedora: new gimp packages.
New packages are available:
Fedora 27: gimp 2.8.22-3.fc27
Fedora 26: gimp 2.8.22-3.fc26

SUSE LE 12 SP4/5: new gimp packages.
New packages are available:
SUSE LE 12 SP4: gimp 2.8.18-9.8.1
SUSE LE 12 SP5: gimp 2.8.18-9.8.1

Ubuntu: new gimp packages.
New packages are available:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: gimp 2.8.10-0ubuntu1.2, libgimp2.0 2.8.10-0ubuntu1.2
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