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Medium severity5.0NVD Advisory· Published Apr 15, 2026· Updated Apr 28, 2026

CVE-2026-40916

CVE-2026-40916

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.

Affected products

5
  • GIMP/Gimp
    cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Red Hat/Enterprise Linux4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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