CVE-2026-40916

MEDIUM

5.0

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.0

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published4/15/2026

Last Modified4/17/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745(secalert@redhat.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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