Debian Security Advisory 1116-1 - Henning Makholm discovered a buffer overflow in the XCF loading code of Gimp, an image editing program. Opening a specially crafted XCF image might cause the application to execute arbitrary code.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006-127 - A buffer overflow in the xcf_load_vector function in app/xcf/xcf-load.c for gimp 2.2.x allows user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XCF file with a large num_axes value in the VECTORS property.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 312-1 - Henning Makholm discovered that the gimp does not sufficiently validate the 'num_axes' parameter in XCF files. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted XCF file with Gimp, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
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