CVE-2026-40916

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 v3 5.0 MEDIUM

5.0^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.3 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:-:::::::*
	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:::::::*

History

28 Apr 2026, 18:29

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:gimp:gimp:-:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
References	~~() https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916 -~~	() https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916 - Vendor Advisory
References	~~() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745 -~~	() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745 - Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
First Time		Redhat Redhat enterprise Linux Gimp gimp Gimp

15 Apr 2026, 20:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-04-15 20:16

Updated : 2026-04-28 18:29

NVD link : CVE-2026-40916

Mitre link : CVE-2026-40916

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-40916

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gimp

gimp

redhat

enterprise_linux

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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