CVE-2026-40916
Gimp: gimp: denial of service due to stack buffer overflow in tim image loader
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.0 Medium
- Published
- Apr 15, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 2, 2026
- Reserved
- Apr 15, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in GIMP. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the TIM image loader's 4BPP decoding path allows a local user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). By opening a specially crafted TIM image file, the application crashes due to an unconditional overflow when writing to a variable-length array.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.0 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2458745issue-tracking
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