Description
A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF with a malformed text-layer parasite can cause a heap out-of-bounds read, disclosing adjacent heap data into layer text and causing denial of service.
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Remediation
Vendor Workaround
Avoid opening untrusted XCF files in GIMP. If GIMP is unused, remove the gimp package.
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History
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF with a malformed text-layer parasite can cause a heap out-of-bounds read, disclosing adjacent heap data into layer text and causing denial of service. | |
| Title | Gimp: gimp: heap out-of-bounds read in xcf text-layer parasite parsing | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-125 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| References |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-19T19:24:49.017Z
Reserved: 2026-10-19T13:14:46.797Z
Link: CVE-2026-112260
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-19T20:17:52.970
Modified: 2026-10-19T20:17:52.970
Link: CVE-2026-112260
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-19T20:30:03Z
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