[Secure-testing-team] Bug#731305: gimp: CVE-2013-1913 CVE-2013-1978

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Package: gimp
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerabilities were published for gimp. Note I have set
the severity to grave as it potentially allows potentially code
execution.

CVE-2013-1913[0]:
xwd plugin g_new() integer overflow

CVE-2013-1978[1]:
XWD plugin color map heap-based buffer overflow

See the RedHat bugtracker referenced from security-tracker for patches
and background for the issues discovered by Murray McAllister.

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1913
[1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1978

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore