GIMP, the open-source, free and multi-platform image editor software, was updated today to version 2.8.22, which appears to be a bugfix release in the stable 2.8 series of the project.
Even if it arrives more than three months after the release of the GIMP 2.8.20 update, GIMP 2.8.22 is a small maintenance update attempting to improve the drawing/painting performance in single window mode, especially when some themes based on the GTK+ Pixmap engine are used, affecting all platforms.
Additionally, it patches a nasty bug in the ICO plugin (see below for details), addresses a crash in the PDF plugin, which could occur when images or their resolutions were too large, no longer parses invalid PCX files to prevent a segmentation fault, and improves the build system.
“This version fixes an ancient CVE bug, CVE-2007-3126. Due to this bug, the ICO file import plug-in could be crashed by specially crafted image fil… (read more)
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