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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-15T18:58:57.615Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-15T19:59:03.461Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-40916 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gimp
  • Gimp
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-40916.

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40916 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40916 cve-icon
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