CVE-2026-6694

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in redhat enterprise linux. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in GIMP's file-png plugin. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) image containing an oversized tRNS chunk. This can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow (CWE-121), causing the file-png plugin to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the user.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS: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 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-120
Published: 2026-08-03
Modified: 2026-09-04
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

redhat:enterprise_linux

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6694
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459779

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