CVE-2026-40916

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

15/04/2026

Last modified:

15/04/2026

Description

A flaw was found in GIMP. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the TIM image loader&#39;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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.00

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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