VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-40916

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-04-15
Last modified2026-10-26
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-787

Primary references