CVE 5 MEDIUM

Gimp: gimp: denial of service due to stack buffer overflow in tim image loader_CVE-2026-40916

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MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-40916
Source redhat
Published Apr 15, 2026 at 18:58

Affected Product

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

CWE Classification

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