CVE-2026-40916

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.

CVSS Vector

References

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