CVE-2026-79902

Gimp: stack vla size underflow denial of service in seattle

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Aug 26, 2026
Updated: Aug 26, 2026
Reserved: Aug 25, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GIMPGNOME	3.1.4 and laterAffected
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-2026-79902vdb-entry
RHBZ#2523512issue-tracking
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582

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