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Vulnerability · Published Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-62438Gimp: gimp: paa integer overflow out-of-bounds read

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity integer overflow in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 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 0.1% (higher than 2% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 98.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in GIMP. An attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially disclose sensitive memory contents by convincing a user to open or preview a specially crafted Bohemia Interactive (PAA) texture file. Due to an integer overflow when calculating image dimensions during file decompression, the application allocates an undersized memory buffer. Subsequent processing reads memory past the buffer boundary, terminating the plug-in process unexpectedly.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:14gimp3.2.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62438
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSgimpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-62438

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 see references
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-190 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

References