medium5.0
CVE-2026-40916
A flaw was found in GIMP.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gimp | Gimp | All versions |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 |