5.0
Medium
CVE-2026-40916 Gimp: gimp: denial of service due to stack buffer overflow in tim image loader
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.
CVSS 3.1 detail
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitable with local access to the machine, with an ordinary account and if a user takes an action; an attacker can seriously compromise confidentiality, integrity or availability.
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- Interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Versions not published |
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