Gimp: stack-based buffer overflows in file-ico
Summary
A flaw was found in GIMP. The GIMP ani_load_image() function is vulnerable to a stack-based overflow. If a user opens.ANI files, GIMP may be used to store more information than the capacity allows. This flaw allows a malicious ANI file to trigger arbitrary code execution. Affected product named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
What this means
In plain English
A flaw was found in GIMP. The GIMP ani_load_image() function is vulnerable to a stack-based overflow. If a user opens.ANI files, GIMP may be used to store more information than the capacity allows. This flaw allows a malicious ANI file to trigger arbitrary code execution. Affected product named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Successful exploitation can let an attacker run code in the security context of the affected service or device.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: 2.99.16.
Rewritten locally from the scraped official advisory data above; no generative API is used. The vendor advisory is authoritative.
- before 2.99.16
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
- 2.99.16
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 2.99.16. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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