Fedora Core 4 : gimp-2.2.12-1.fc4 (2006-795)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24143

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This new version of GIMP fixes a vulnerability in the loader for the XCF format which is the native image file format for the GIMP.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gimp, gimp-debuginfo and / or gimp-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2ba6b4ec

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24143

File Name: fedora_2006-795.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gimp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gimp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gimp-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-795