PT-2026-33127 · Gimp · Gimp

Mzfr · Published 2026-04-15 · Updated 2026-04-16 · CVE-2026-40916

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GIMP (affected versions not specified)

Description A stack buffer overflow in the TIM image loader's 4BPP decoding path allows a local user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). This occurs when the application opens a specially crafted TIM image file, leading to a crash due to an unconditional overflow when writing to a variable-length array.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

BDU:2026-05644

CVE-2026-40916

Affected Products

Gimp

References · 13

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458745 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40916 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40916 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-40916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2026-05644 · Security Note
• https://heise.de/en/news/Gimp-Unpatched-vulnerability-allows-code-injection-with-GIFs-11260781.html · Note
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16052 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2044737927184273901 · Twitter Post
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-40916 · Note