CVE-2026-40916

MEDIUM

Gimp: gimp: denial of service due to stack buffer overflow in tim image loader

Title source: cna

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.

References (2)

[Vdb Entry, X_Refsource_Redhat] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916

[Issue Tracking, X_Refsource_Redhat] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745

Scores

CVSS v3 5.0

EPSS 0.0000

EPSS Percentile 0.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-787

Status published

Products (9)

gimp/gimp

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0

Published Apr 15, 2026

Tracked Since Apr 16, 2026