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Unscored USN-3025-1 1 CVE

gimp vulnerability

Published Jul 5, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XCF files. If a
user were tricked into opening a specially crafted XCF file, an attacker
could cause GIMP to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
user's privileges.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS gimp 2.8.10-0ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the xcf_load_image function in app/xcf/xcf-load.c in GIMP allows remote attackers to ca…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4994