Software Update: Gimp 2.6.8

The Gimp Team has released version 2.6.8 of the open source photo editing program Gimp. The name Gimp is an abbreviation of ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’. The software is available for various operating systems, including FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. Although not officially supported by The Gimp Team, Jernej Simoncic is working on a installer that can be used under Windows. In version 2.6, the user interface in particular has been improved; it was often criticized for opening so many screens. The first steps have also been taken with regard to the integration of gl, which should offer higher color depth and improved editing capabilities in the future. Below you will find all the improvements made to Gimp since version 2.6.7:

Bug fixed:

• MapObject cannot modify highlight
• FG color changed to black when FG-BG Editor tab created
• layer.scale() raises RuntimeError
• Keyboard shortcuts does not work for first image when dock is focused
• F1 key on gimp-tool-align in menu have wrong link and it open gimp-tool-move
• Gimp BMP Integer Overflow Vulnerability
• “read_channel_data()” Integer Overflow Vulnerability
• gimp_image_get_selection returns None
• plug-in-grid: Parameters Horizontal/Vertical Spacing and Horizontal/Vertical Offset are reversed.
• PCX plugin doesn’t sanitize input to avoid allocation overflows.
• PCX: Calculating amount of memory to allocate may overflow.
• SGI: sanitize input
• SGI: Calculating amount of memory to allocate may overflow.
• SGI: RLE encoded input data may write beyond allocated buffers
• SGI: allocate memory consistently
• GBR, PAT: sanitize input data
• Crash when pressing Backspace with Free Select Tool

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