CVE-2026-40916 — Gimp: gimp: denial of service due to stack buffer overflow in tim image loader

CVE-2026-40916

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

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	affected

CWE

CWE-787

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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