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 3.1

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

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-26)

CWE

CWE-787

Published

2026-04-15

Modified

2026-10-26

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

Affected

• gimp:gimp
• redhat:enterprise_linux

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745

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