Vulnerability · Published Apr 15, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-40916Gimp: gimp: denial of service due to stack buffer overflow in tim image loader

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds write in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Debian:14	gimp	3.2.2-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40916
Ubuntu:25.10	gimp	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40916

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	see references
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	see references
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	see references
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	see references

Weakness: CWE-787 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
RHBZ#2458745 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT