CVE-2026-40916

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Nov 5, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	—

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 15, 2026
Last modified: Nov 5, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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