Vulnerability · Published Apr 15, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-40917Gimp: gimp: application crashes or information disclosure via crafted icns image files

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity out-of-bounds read 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 6% 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 94.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in GIMP. This vulnerability, a heap buffer over-read in the `icns_slurp()` function, occurs when processing specially crafted ICNS image files. An attacker could provide a malicious ICNS file, potentially leading to application crashes or information disclosure on systems that process such files.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Debian:13	gimp	3.0.4-3+deb13u8	DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40917
Debian:14	gimp	3.2.2-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40917
Ubuntu:25.10	gimp	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40917

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-125 · 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-2026-40917 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
RHBZ#2458746 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT