CVE-2026-40916

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.0

Exploit probability—

Product

Gimp

PublishedApr 15, 2026

First seenApr 15, 2026

Weakness typeCWE-787Out-of-bounds write

How to fix

Vendor advisories

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

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
gimp gimp	No range specified	—
redhat enterprise_linux	6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0	—

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